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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country whether or not they have an aptitude for flying and to provide a reservoir from which to draw in case of national emergency. However, since no arrangements for training have yet been announced, exactly what will happen to graduates of the C.A.A. is uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: C.A.A. COURSE IS INTENSIFIED; SUMMER SESSION TRAINS 30 | 9/27/1940 | See Source »

...Uncertain but hopeful was the way Coach Jack Carr described the 1940 soccer turnout which was close to thirty strong. With only six out of last year's eleven returning, the true calibre of the squad could not be determined after only three days of practice on fundamentals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPENINGS ON SOCCER TEAM | 9/27/1940 | See Source »

...steelmaker was happier about the nature of this boom last week than the industry's No. 4 unit, 90-year-old Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. For four uncertain years J. & L. has been slightly out of step. Its plants are all in the long-suffering Pittsburgh district, headquarters of heavy steel. Its preferred-stock arrearage has grown from $21.25 then to $43.50 a share now. Its new (in 1936) boss, up-from-the-mills Horace Edgar Lewis, has had to be tough. He tried to balance J. & L.'s heavy wares by building a gigantic strip mill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEEL: Support at the Heavy End | 9/23/1940 | See Source »

Putting the Lux Radio Theatre on the air is a complicated business. Clearing rights to a script often takes weeks, and signing up stars is an uncertain enterprise. To make sure that cinema studios won't interrupt Lux plans by whisking actors away to distant locations, the Radio Theatre has established an elaborate understudy system. Rehearsals begin on Thursday, continue until air time Monday night. Part of the ritual of every rehearsal is a spot of tea, a custom introduced by Hollywood's British contingent. Seldom on hand until Saturday. De Mille, who receives $2,000 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Hollywood Show | 9/16/1940 | See Source »

Genial Dick Harlow, famed expenent of the spinuer cycle offense, is sitting on a keg of dynamite in Cambridge this fall. He must fact a suicide schedule with but an uncertain crop of Junior gridders, victims of an acute attack of jitters in the objective Eli game last November...

Author: By D. DONALD Peddle, | Title: SUICIDAL SCHEDULE SLATED FOR UNPROVED GRIDDERS | 9/5/1940 | See Source »

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