Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What had happened politically (in terms of the cartoon) was this: the Democratic gallant had, at the valet's suggestion, paid his compliments to the damsel but remained uncertain whether she was sleeping or weeping. What had happened morally was that Nominee Smith had not committed himself on the Farm Problem beyond the terms of the Democratic plank. At the same time he had apparently persuaded Farmers' Friend Peek to stop insisting on a thing called the Equalization...
...truth from the array of scandal and propaganda that has befogged the present Haitian problem. He stultifies prevalent accusations of graft. He gives America full credit for feats of rehabilitation, agriculture, public health, policing and education, in the face of such stupendous difficulties as 95% illiteracy. But in no uncertain terms he flays American failure to prepare Haitians for the independent self-government which will be theirs, according to treaty...
...182.Herr Miiller, badly worried, appealed to Dr. Stresemann "as a man above party," thereby causing him to arise from his sick bed for a conference with the various leaders. Though the issue was uncertain, Germans looked to Great Dr. Stresemann to solve their cabinet crisis...
...single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth of Mrs. Frederick Guest (TIME, June 11), but Miss Boll's sponsor is Charles A. Levine, of uncertain reliability. Lady Lindy knows she wants to fly to England, while the Queen of Diamonds would fly anywhere if she could lead her rival across the water...
Democrats sat back to see what decision the Republican 1,089 delegates, all of whom were now chosen, would come to among themselves. The votes of 545 would settle the matter, but with many a delegate unpledged, many another uncertain, many another unaccredited, the result could not be figured out to a mathematical certainty on paper. Last week's odds in Wall Street were...