Word: uncertainity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...together the jut-jawed comic ran wild. Placing $2 here, $2 there, he ran up a sizable wad of folding money. He had worked up a vigorous enthusiasm for the ponies when one-of his entries finished out of the money. Thereupon he decided that horse gambling was too uncertain for pleasure...
...Uncertain loyalty of Chinese Communist troops...
When this "convoy" system has been set up, next projected step is in air-transport system, which ought to be far more efficient and far speedier than uncertain Chinese gasoline, mule-and coolie-propelled transport. Chinese in Washington are desperately trying to obtain priorities for 24 U.S. transport planes, which will operate from Myitkyina, Burma, the railhead north of Mandalay, to a point two-thirds of the way up the Burma Road...
Wagner. "With Wagner we . . . reach an uncertain twilight region - part biological, part social, and part . . . esthetic. But the pattern is the same. Art has its evolution, which follows the development of races and nations, the progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue...
Stringent though the FTC ruling is, it is moderate as compared with the acrimonious bickering that preceded it. Each side called over 100 witnesses. Good -Housekeeping's Attorney Isaac W. Digges called the FTC charges "vague, uncertain, undefinite, confused, confusing, argumentative, ambiguous, self-contradictory, conclusory and unintelligible." Hearst Magazines General Manager Richard Berlin charged that the attack on Good Housekeeping's 35-year-old seal business was inspired by subversive groups bent on destroying advertising altogether...