Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anderson and Prado and two Yale friends of their decided last winter to make the trip "just for the fun of it," and last summer journeyed to Peru, bought a cance, hired a dozen native Indian porters of uncertain origin and disposition, built a number of balsa wood rafts for their provisions, and set out into the interior...
...addition, population at the school age level has been declining for some time and will shortly be felt by the colleges, and "graduate schools and income from endowment is shrinking and the future is uncertain," Dean Donham said...
Although most of the plans are still uncertain, members implied that the skits will be presented by several talented Yardlings, and that local girls' colleges will be represented in the amateur show...
...wipe out the Chinese threat along the mid-China chain of lakes; and they had failed. They had caused considerable damage-had reduced most of the buildings of Yale-in-China to a soot-blackened monument of U.S. mission enterprise-but they had been chased away in no-uncertain fashion...
Since the University is uncertain as to the number of undergraduates and incoming Freshmen who are to enroll for the summer term, it is unable to announce complete details regarding living arrangements, although rent will probably be in proportion to the charges made during the regular academic year. Dining hall services will also be arranged when enrollment is known...