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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe, between the Americas and the totalitarian States. The U. S. would have to foot the bill for such a program, possibly by some sort of AAA. Whether South America will be willing to place her economic future in U. S. hands at the forthcoming Havana Conference is uncertain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: If Britain Should Lose | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...rank amateurs through whose affectionate bloobs and bleatings may be heard, if faintly and scratchily, the record they are trying to duplicate: Tin Roof Blues. Whether readers can rave over it is doubtful. What musicians will think of the novel - since they are kind to the nonpretentious - is uncertain. But faulty as it is, it is warmly readable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hot v. Sweet | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

...forever. Just to remind the Dutch that Japan had not forgotten them, Vice Foreign Minister Tani called on Netherlands Minister to Tokyo J. C. Pabst, expressed appreciation of the trade concessions already made by the Indies, declared however they were not enough, asked for more, and in no uncertain terms suggested "the need for prompt compliance." Minister Pabst was prompt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EASTERN THEATRE: Enter Japan | 7/8/1940 | See Source »

...Tommie Bartlett earns $22,000 a year, lives handsomely in a duplex apartment on Lake Shore Drive. A feature of almost every berry, corn and apple festival around Chicago, Bachelor Tommie has so far received 20 proposals of marriage, inherited $5,000 from one mike-struck listener. A little uncertain about the I. Q. of his audience ever since one of his girls described a demitasse as a young lady ready to make her debut, Bartlett, who makes a hobby of collecting paperweights, haunts lawyers' offices, barbershops, funeral parlors in his off hours, as the best bets for adding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Meet the Missus | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

...terms all employers would be suspect, that none could ever be sure of his innocence. Senator Reynolds waved this objection aside, got his unenforceable amendment passed without a recorded vote. The Senate then passed what was left of the La Follette-Thomas Bill, sent the measure on its uncertain way to the House. The La Follette Bill had been smothered in aliens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Smothered in Aliens | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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