Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steady improvement which the Crimson stick-wielders have shown during their last few games is rapidly placing them in the class of heavy-hitting ball clubs, and despite a rather uncertain start they are rapidly ascending the heights of Eastern collegiate baseball...
...been recognized as a sound and fair business method. The most recent efforts, however, have taken on a different form, and have been directed towards capturing public opinion. The newspapers and schools, as the most powerful mediums in this field, have felt the business man's hand in no uncertain way, and in both cases exploitation took place under cover and the facts relating to the questions have not been fully uncovered yet. The fact that the corporations active in these fields brought every possible influence to bear in attempting to prevent public investigation shows a very unhealthy attitude...
...sentiment for and against the proposal to allow, to farm surplus exporters, bounties equal to one-half the tariff rates on their commodities. There were 47 Senators opposed to debentures, 46 Senators in favor, one Senator undecided, one Senator sick and not yet sworn in. With the outcome so uncertain, Vice President Charles Curtis braced him self for the emergency of having to vote to break a tie. How would he vote? asked Senators under their breath. In the Coolidge era, as Kansas Senator and presidential candidate, he had voted once for and once against the equalization fee, of which...
...whole game was replete with thrills and the outcome was uncertain until the final whistle blew. In the first half Syracuse quickly leapt into a 2 to 1 lead, but the Crimson players launched a fierce offensive which kept their opponents at bay all through the initial period. The Harvard offense was led by R.G. Glenn '30, and only the stellar goal-tending of Gidlow prevented several tallies...
...street car, and demands to be let off at the corner of King and Yonge. The young priest, sliding the panel between him and the drunk, recognizes the grating sound as the same noise made by the closing doors of a street car. Fearful of unseemly disturbance, uncertain what to do, he prolongs a confession at the women's panel, chides the penitent for lying, suggests that she say a little prayer whenever she feels she is going to lie. Then he turns to the other side of the confessional, hesitates, says three "Our Fathers" and three "Hail Marys...