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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of the uncertain aspects of the situation, College authorities cannot definitely assign jobs, but the preliminary work must be finished by the end of the school year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: APPLICATIONS FOR NYA JOBS ARE NOW OPEN | 4/8/1941 | See Source »

...That Uncertain Feeling (United Artists). For most cinemakers, jokes about psychoanalysts and their patients are as dated as sugar daddies. For cigar-faced Director Ernst Lubitsch, they can form the nucleus of a whole amusing movie about well-cushioned life with the upper crust. He proves it by sending Merle Oberon, a healthy Park Avenue socialite, to consult a Dr. Vengard (Alan Mowbray) at the beginning of the picture. When she tells him there is nothing wrong with her, he says: "I'm sure you will feel differently when you leave this office." She does. Her happy marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1941 | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...ridiculous. And there is his Svengalish knack of urging the utmost from his actors. For the first time in his movie career, Burgess Meredith is sufficiently subdued to be a funny comedian. For an advanced course in the sort of fluff & nonsense which has been the Lubitsch trademark, That Uncertain Feeling is a prerequisite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Mar. 31, 1941 | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

...outfield, Ed Buckley is a fixture in right, but since Lou Clay in left and Bill Hausserman or Bill Barnes in center are uncertain, there is bound to be much experimenting on the trip...

Author: By Jay K. Lazrus, | Title: BASEBALL TEAM HEADS SOUTH TO MEET STRONG OPPONENTS | 3/27/1941 | See Source »

Last week a special Federal grand jury identified him in no uncertain terms. He was Dr. Manfred Zapp, 38, alias Hermann Nille, alias Otto W. Hermann, son of a Ruhr steel tycoon, head of the German Transocean News Service, and No. 1 Nazi propagandist for the U. S. and Latin America. After a five-month study of his activities by FBI, a Federal grand jury in Washington, D. C. indicted him and his chief aide, Günther Tonn. (The Dies Committee picked up his trail seven months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Zapp Trapped | 3/24/1941 | See Source »

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