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Word: uncertainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elkins at goal is the only starting player who did not win his letter last year, but he was on the squad throughout the season. Coach Stubbs, however, is still uncertain as to who is his outstanding goal tender, and he stated yesterday that he will use Elkins in the first period. H. H. Newell '29 in the second period and O. P. Jackson '29 in the third...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTAIN RISES ON HOCKEY TOMORROW | 12/11/1928 | See Source »

...first young Chinawomen to become a Y.W.C.A. worker. As such she was wooed by her impetuous, ambitious husband, who was then and for years afterward a passionate Christian, in the Old Testament, Cromwellian fighting sense. Today the Marshal's state of grace is a trifle uncertain. He has cast in his lot with the studiously non-Christian Chinese Nationalist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Other People's Women. . . . | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...largest mound at Nuzi rises about five and one half meters above the plain. Its top is nearly level and measures some 160 meters square. This was probably the citadel. It contains the ruins of an immense building of uncertain dimensions. The excavated portion, estimated as one-half, measures 116 by 68 meters, and contains 100 rooms. The objects and inscriptions found there seem to indicate that the building was in part palace and in part temple. Among the tablets are some, which record lists of offerings and pay-lists of temple employees. The bronze censer and the fragments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: D. G. LYON TELLS STORY OF EXCAVATIONS OF AMERICAN RESEARCHERS IN NUZI, IRAQ | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

Whether or not Bellhaven Behoover would be accepted by the Hoovers as First Dog was, however, uncertain. It promised to be a delicate matter. Of course, so illustrious a pet would be welcomed and appreciated by anyone with any feeling at all for dogs. But the Hoovers had a dog already, a shaggy, grim-grinning German police dog, perfectly respectable as to breeding though no multiple champion. To predict that this staunch friend of Commerce Department days would be relegated at the White House to give place to ever-so-aristocratic Bellhaven Behoover, was something few predicters would venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...post office officials when queried as to the amount of correspondence that passed between Harvard men and Radcliffe students admitted that it would be impossible to ascertain. The possibility of frequent phone calls would naturally make any such figures an uncertain gage of the correspondence passing between the two institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Girls Outclass Smith and Vassar in Number of Harvard Letters They Attract--Bryn Mawr Fourth | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

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