Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already old two-and three-masters are being rerigged and recaulked; fishing and lumber schooners are bidding for commercial cargoes (and getting them); and importers all along the Caribbean are beginning to specify "Dispatch via sail" when steamers are not available. This means slower and more uncertain voyages, higher insurance, and cargo rates that are all the traffic will bear; but in many cases it may be the only means of getting badly needed supplies...
Activity Location Uncertain...
After leaving Cambridge in their chronically uncertain status, the "Varsity" and the "Junior Varsity" (you pay your money, and you take your choice) 150-pound crews are back at Princeton again today, where they are entered in the A. R. A. regatta for the famed Joe Wright...
Just which Harvard crew is which, nobody knows. As a matter of fact, the further the season has progressed, the more uncertain the relative standings of Johnny Abbot's and Frank Cunningham's boats have become...
...Wallasey (Conservative since 1918) Independent Gordon L. Reakes defeated Conservative John Pennington and Independent Major Leonard Harrison Cripps (ultrarightist brother of leftist Sir Stafford Cripps), 12,596-to-6,584-to-1,597. Conservative Pennington, local Tory leader, conceded: "Wallasey has spoken in no uncertain voice and I accept its decision in good part...