Word: uncertainity
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...