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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farmers faced an uncertain future. Continue farm price support, said Truman ; restore CCC authority to build more storage bins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Shortcomings & Solutions | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

Robert C. Claflin '50, Key representative, disclosed that the Key is uncertain whether to have its proposed all-College dance this spring or to wait until the football season. The Key began its plan for its own dance as an independent source of income to avoid reliance on Student Council grants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Votes '50, '51, Dances; First Since War | 1/13/1949 | See Source »

...values. Next week, after delays caused by Dos Passos' war reporting and a highway accident which took his wife's life and cost him an eye, that novel will come out. The Grand Design contains the expected defense of liberalism, but it speaks in a worried, hesitant, uncertain voice in which there is little of the power of U.S.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: From Rebellion to Doubt | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...faults were still there--uncertain hall-handing (what Art Valpey would call "Stuttering"), and an overall lack of confidence. With two and a half minutes to play in the regulation game, Harvard had a five point lead. They couldn't freeze...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Dartmouth Five Wins 72-68 Overtime Game | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

Just how bad an effect this lighting has on the students who work under it is pretty uncertain. Back in 1936 a Missouri elementary school ran off an experiment which discovered that students working under "adequate" lighting got 20 percent better grades than a control group. But a follow-up at an Ohio Western Electric plant, corelating production with lighting, went the other way: workers, believing the light was improving, jumped their output enthusiastically as the illumination was cut to around that of moonlight. It has been determined, however, that lighting of the College's present caliber will inevitably cause...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lighting: Sub-Standard | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

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