Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LULU BELLE?Lenore Ulric depicting in no uncertain terms the rise and fall of a Negress courtesan...
...been suggested that a Harvard College Budget, to be administered and collected by the Student Council, and intended to cover the philanthropies expenses which are annually presented to the College, would solve many of the difficulties which have in past years rendered such philanthropy uncertain. After an investigation of the theoretical advantages of the plan and after having become to a certain degree conversant with similar methods employed at Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, this committee wishes to report in favor of the plan...
...evident that the person for whom this idea has been formulated cannot but appreciate the chance to enjoy its incorporation into the university system. It is the less purposive person whom this plan does not particularly help. Uncertain as to his proper concentration, interested in multifarious activities necessary to his development, he does not have sufficient time in his sophomore and junior years to gain a sufficiently comprehensive understanding of such a field, for instance, as English literature. Though the plan allows him to become a candidate for distinction in his senior year, to do practically what is done under...
...Margaine project for a national oil monopoly in France, recently approved by the Finance Committee of the Chamber of Deputies, has aroused a storm of protest from American oil interests. Concerned over the uncertain fate of their receiving and the distributing stations in which twenty million dollars have been invested, the Americans have characteristically appealed to the United States government...
Clearly the new dailies have found a new public and have published as plainly as their own type and omnipresent cuts, the propensities of more than a million formerly uninterpreted people. And it is the unique character of their public that gives these tabloids an uncertain significance. If they were engaged in converting to their standard readers long inured to fine print, one would have little hesitation in condemning them. But they seem to be catering to other readers, hitherto up served, and thus to assume besides the vices of time-servers and the virtues of discoverers...