Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Returning students who may change their plans without notice and civilian Freshmen uncertain of their draft status are counted upon to leave vacancies in rooming space so that some of the most recently admitted men may find themselves accommodated in temporary quarters for two or three weeks after registration...
...loving, but that left plenty of room for disagreement. Either an international Dorothy Dix would have to define the difference between true love of peace and mere flirtation; or else a contemporary Henry Clay would have to find a new kind of Missouri Compromise to preserve U.N.'s uncertain balance...
...uncertain: whether folic acid also halts the nerve degeneration common in anemia...
...interregnum between no price controls whatever and the date when the new O.P.A. gets its mace of full authority, various new ceilings as adjusted by O.P.A. officials tend to make the buyer uncertain of any fact except the one that his cost of living is going up. Although increases now appear to have the sanction of law, many student budgets will have become inadequate unless buyers continue to restrict their demands to needed items and minimum quanties...
Winter is no bargain, either. Its snowstorms, which the dauntless U.S. postal service defies, stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...