Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Gravedigger. Once ashore, he found an idle generator close to the uncertain fighting, hooked on and recorded what he saw. The recorder, with its magnetized spool of wire, survived the blast of a Jap bomb ten yards away. Then, being a Marine before he was a correspondent, Maypole went to work digging graves. He dug them all day. Next morning he recorded interviews with weary Marines resting from a night's fighting in the bush...
Occupied China (uncertain) 100,000,000 (estimated) Invasions since...
...also announced that the University boathouse has been reopened, and will be available to 150 experienced crewmen per afternoon, with Bert Haines in charge. Anyone who is uncertain whether he has sufficient experience should see the coach...
...magnetic compass was by Chinese Emperor Hwang-ti in a battle in 2364 B.C. To guide his warriors through an enemy fog screen, he mounted on a cart a magnetized figure which steadily pointed south. But the real origin of the compass and its first use is uncertain...
...seniors were returning from calisthenics one morning, one junior was heard to say to another: "When we are seniors, I hope we are in that good shape." Ever since then we have been a little uncertain as to just how the remark should have been interpreted. Supposedly the remark was guileless, but then, we have a suspicion that most of the juniors are not as innocent as they look -- they couldn't be! So we shall have to go on the assumption that the remark was meant to be a compliment...