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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hence the whole line of investigation was solely speculative, and "table-top seismology" with pencil and paper Leet admitted was very uncertain. It was not that the scientists were unable to make a beginning and to define the problem in physical and mathematical terms, but the actual test proved as much a surprise to them as it turned out later for Japanese Imperial Headquarters...

Author: By Richard W. Wallach, | Title: GEOLOGIST LEET CALLS A-BOMB SEISMOLOGISTS' DIVINING ROD | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

...civilian distribution of factual movies was fairly begrudging, and public reception was fairly apathetic. Today, there is no longer any patriotic motive for showing documentaries in theaters. The nontheatrical market-some 35,000 projectors in schools, parish houses, union halls, etc.-is still uncertain. Commercial producers hesitate to risk much in a risky medium. Documentary films run the danger of being controlled by sponsors with an ax to grind and little concern for what interests people. (Likeliest sponsors: the Government, private industry, unions, educational institutions.) Too few documentaries have straight theatrical vitality; and too few of those which do have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Eye for Fact | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...steel strike (800,000 workers) is set for Jan. 14 at 12:01 a.m., the electrical workers' strike (200,000 workers) for Jan. 15. On Jan. 16, 125,000 members of the young, turbulent, uncertain Packinghouse Workers are ready to walk out (after a rank-&-file forcing of the leadership's hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Boss's Strategy | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

...nation whose most potent military asset was its soldiers' readiness to die rather than yield had actually developed a defense, however fantastic and uncertain, against the U.S. amphibious attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crouching Dragons | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

General George S. Patton Jr. sat up in bed for the first time since his neck-breaking auto crash, faced an uncertain future with good humor and good appetite. He moved his shoulders, still could not move his hands or legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 24, 1945 | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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