Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...delegates assumed that that implied a homogenous and well-rounded out navy. Such a navy as the Conference contemplated, which is called a 'Hughes navy', would require 140,000 enlisted men. As soon as the 65,000-man navy began to be talked about, the President stated in no uncertain terms that he would not agree to a drastic cut and he expressed a willingness to compromise between the full 140,000 and the 65,000 navy by saying that 96,000 would be acceptable...
Japan is in the throes of violent popular demonstrations for universal manhood suffrage and a more democratic government. Whether an industrial, bourgeois bureaucracy will take the place left vacant by the crowned oligarchy of the Genro and the military party is uncertain. What is clear is that a grave crisis confronts the nation. If, as is more than possible, Japan has outgrown herself, if she holds a position in the world today out of all proportion to her size because of the feudal organization of her people; she will gradually decline with the increase of democracy. Her new leaders will...
...Tigers will be well represented in the 440, hurdles, high-jump, broad-jump, shot-put, and hammer, but the other events are at present rather uncertain. Coach Fitzpatrick has not been able to discover any exceptionally promising men for the javelin or discus throws, which events were recently added for intercollegiate competition, but he is developing new material and expects to be able to put some good men on the field...
...practice of borrowing on uncertain future earnings," he went on, "combined with the financial strain of the Great War, has driven the railroads into bankruptcy". Mr. Plumb then demonstrated that the railroads are a mirror of the condition of industry in general at the present time...
...hand at "reserving". Negotiations would thus extend from the council-table, through the ratifying bodies, to a grand international committee of conference designed to smooth over the objections which the various parliaments had enacted. This procedure would be open diplomacy openly arrived at but it is indirect, slow and uncertain. The Senate will help to avoid it by giving to the present treaties its unconditioned approval...