Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...promising that he and his peculiar Private Army shall be allowed to occupy and police the rich Chinese province of Shantung. Though the rebels were utterly routed at Hankow on the north bank of the Yang-tze-kiang, last week, the absconding rebel "Generals" collected a force of uncertain strength on the south bank, to which they had fled, and President Chiang Kai-shek prepared to engage in prolonged dickering and skirmishing. Nonetheless he stood forth, last week, more clearly than ever as the Strong Man of modern China...
Meanwhile, the Stock Market, though nervous and uncertain, ran up loans to brokers another $140,000,000, to a total of $5,647,000,000, not so far below the six billion total that prompted the Federal Reserve Board's February warning. The increase in loans was mostly from corporations, not from banks, and as long as corporations can lend out their surpluses at up to 12% call money rates, the banks generally maintain that there is no way of keeping money out of Wall St. Mr. Warburg's statement did not much annoy the speculators, who were inclined...
After much secret and uncertain picking up and putting down, Herbert Hoover fitted ten pegs into ten holes and finally made up his Cabinet. It had been a brain-bullying task and the result, somehow, failed to produce the striking design of supermen and specialists which Mr. Hoover-and the U. S.-had hoped for last November. He had had a surplus of little pegs that would have fallen through the holes, whereas big pegs of individual shapes refused to fit in, even when pushed. But a survey of his handiwork at least brought the new President the consoling knowledge...
...matter of records the Harvard players have an uncertain edge over their rivals: for while both have defeated St. Paul's by about equal scores, Yale was able to register only a 3 to 1 win over the Dartmouth freshmen, whom the Crimson men overwhelmed...
...Harvard students who are the least bit uncertain as to what to do on Saturday night are hereby advised to put in an appearance at the Boston Garden for the eleventh of a series of indoor triangular college meets. Dartmouth and Cornell are sending strong teams to combat Harvard, but from information that has come to me I am willing to predict that it will take some remarkable performances to beat the Crimson...