Word: uncertainly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...background could hardly be more different from Mrs. Macy's fashion career. He played basketball at Iowa's Grinnell College, before going to Manhattan as a $45-a-month social worker. In those days he was shy, uncertain, socially awkward. But he learned fast...
...relieved, perhaps someone will compile a glossary of military cliches for the benefit of people living in a homelier world. Certainly such a glossary would contain the word 'fluid,' probably translated for the layman in this way: 'Our boys are catching hell and the outcome is uncertain...
...faith in the victory of the United Nations, but, though they hate to admit it, they are impressed by Japanese successes. Hearing Allied propaganda of huge air armadas and vast production, they wonder why the Allies can do no better. The coolie-in-the-street is beginning to feel uncertain about the outcome...
Members of Harvard's Graduate Schools will address the student body over the Crimson Network beginning next Monday night, discussing the opportunities which the schools, now affected by the war, can offer to undergraduates. These talks, designed to enlighten many whose future is very uncertain, are to be given every Monday and Wednesday evening from 9:45 to 10 o'clock...
...Volkhovo, 80 miles southeast of Leningrad, where incessant and uncertain struggles have been reported for weeks, the Germans claimed a victory: 32,000 Russian prisoners and much booty. Whatever the true outcome, a preliminary to major engagements in the north had apparently been completed...