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Word: uncertainity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hemingway's terse sentences full of meaning. For two hours they sat through unreal seenes torn from the Spanish, Civil War, through rape, death, and gory descriptions. There were ideals and ideas involved and both came off second best. The final curtain left many persons unimpressed or at best uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/14/1940 | See Source »

Coach Wes Fesler has hopes of tripping up the Jumbos, but the Crimson will be on the short end of the odds again. Captain Charley Lutz and Bill Webber will play the forwards and Ed Rothschild will be in there at center, but one guard position is still uncertain...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: HOOPSTERS TO END EXAM LAYOFF WITH TUFTS ENCOUNTER | 2/2/1940 | See Source »

...Infield Uncertain...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Crimson Nine Hit Heavily by Graduation of Five Regulars | 1/31/1940 | See Source »

Defendant Browder's lawyer was famed, white-haired George Gordon Battle. To call Earl Browder's evasion criminal fraud, roared Mr. Battle, was "flimsy, uncertain, vague, clumsy, meaningless interpretation of words." To this roar, Attorney Battle added no defense testimony whatsoever, did not even offer a defense summation. Defendant Browder instead chose to plead his own case, ably belabored the technical charge on which he was spitted. Said he in conclusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Before a Fall | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Confused and uncertain as U. S. shipping was last week, it had gone a long way toward adjusting itself to wartime trade. Some adjustments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SHIPPING: For Sale | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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