Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just why students flock to the pinball game is still uncertain. David Myers, a Boston distributor, claims it is because "there is a little larceny in everybody," that the player cannot resist trying to get something for nothing. Another operator says that pinball gives the little man a chance to compete in a game of skill with an athlete. Last year a Social Relations student found that most students claimed they played to "waste time." But the owner of the Holyoke Street grill in which much Harvard pinball activity centers has different ideas. "They give the boys a nice place...
...stays on top of the news. By monitoring Soviet stations 24 hours a day, RIAS picked up the first flash of Jan Masaryk's plunge from a Prague window. That night, Heimlich's staff rounded up politicians and union leaders to join in a Masaryk memorial. Communists, uncertain of the party line, refused to appear, so RIAS broadcast a few moments of silence, explained that the time was reserved for the Reds...
Weather and exams make the outcome uncertain. Cold temperatures have brought ice and resulting practice to the Dedham skaters. Since their rink is outdoors, a warm spell may bring poor ice conditions, and hobble the team's smooth skating...
...particularly intelligent, but he says he feels sure that a really bright model can be built on the same principle. "The method which would be used to enable it to play chess," he says confidently, "is now clear, though how long it will take to achieve this performance is uncertain...
...immoral" in 1900 he began a period of despair, ending in such poverty that he rented a $1.25-a-week room, lived on a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread a day. "A strange half-wakefulness soon came over him, during which he wandered about confused and uncertain as to what he actually was. He sometimes regarded himself as two persons ... At night, frequently, he imagined there was an intruder creeping about the room ..." Down to his last dollar, he went to the East River to drown himself. A drunken Scotsman danced around him singing. A canal boatman...