Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...much territory should be taken from Germany still appeared uncertain...
...Dewey readily admits that present educational practice and thinking are sadly awry. "Some of us ... agree that the present system (if it may be called a system) is so lacking in unity of aim, material, and method as to be something of a patchwork. . . . We agree that we are uncertain as to where we are going and where we want to go, and why.we are doing what...
News from the city of Florence itself was more doubtful. It was uncertain whether the fountainhead of the Renaissance was still lifting all its loveliest jets toward the sky-Giotto's tinted and delicate campanile; Brunelleschi's great cathedral dome which, looming above the huge round windows of its supporting tower, has risen against the horizon as the city's most prominent symbol. Also unaccounted for were Florence's masterly sculptures, including Michelangelo's celebrated marble David, Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo...
...History, which is rather uncertain, mentions a Jonas Bronk, or Bronck, either a Dutchman or Scandinavian, who was the first settler, around...
With five spots to fill, competition was especially severe in the '47 contest, and the results remained uncertain until the last accounting. Named by members of their class who have been here for more than one term are Oakes Ames of Cambridge, Jerome Edson Andrews of Andover and the Naval ROTC, William Brochie Foster of Milton and the V-12, Henry Martin Shine, Jr., of Los Angeles and the V-12, and H.E. Thurman of Jacksonville, Florida and the Naval ROTC...