Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real expeditionary scale. It lacked many things which the U.S. would have three months, six months, a year from now. One school of thought pondered these lacks, pondered as well the heavy responsibility of committing men, planes, warships to battles in which losses would be great and chances uncertain. It took no basic lack of the offensive spirit for these burdened men to say (as many in high places did say last week): "We must wait...
...Japanese would drive on northward, do their most to block these lifelines. With the same stroke, they would further brace themselves for a sea-and-air drive across the Bay of Bengal at India. The Allies, with all Burma gone, would find it harder than ever to defend uncertain India, harder still to place bombers, tanks and artillery in China to answer the flames of Toungoo...
...Edward Keys of the clinic's staff have been delving into the medical history of George Washington. Their research, published last week in the clinic's Proceedings, shows that, in the course of his 67-year life, Washington suffered from: measles, diphtheria, smallpox, an "infectious disease of uncertain nature," dysentery, malaria, rheumatism, pneumonia, a carbuncle, influenza, conjunctivitis, recurrent headaches, bad eyesight, a tremor of the hands, decaying teeth...
...Mein Kampf Hitler called Anton Drexler "a simple workman . . . little importance . . . not a soldier . . . weak and uncertain...
...intercollegiate football in recent years, N.Y.U., unlike the University of Chicago, is stepping out because of plain economic necessity. Explained Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase: "For the past two years football has been conducted at a considerable deficit and the university cannot retain the sport any further under the uncertain conditions that prevail...