Word: uncertainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not get any worse, the main topic of business conversation last week centered around when the recession would end. The answer depended somewhat on who was talking. New York's Guaranty Trust Co. took a banker's grey view: "Prospects for a definite end . . . remain highly uncertain, despite . . . comment that the bottom may be close at hand." Said the equally august Chase Manhattan Bank: "It is possible that we may see an end before long...
Dewey and his disciples revolted against this certitude, which had indeed grown more than a little ossified in its teaching methods. But history records no more egregious case of throwing out the baby with the bath water. "We agree," Dewey once said, "that we are uncertain as to where we are going and where we want to go, and why we are doing what we do." In a kind of country-club existentialism, Dewey and his boys genially contended that the traditional ends of education, like God, virtue and the idea of "culture," were all highly debatable and hence...
After some uncertain starts, pupils quickly adjusted to a program that relies on analysis rather than memory. By stressing principles rather than technology, the program attracts girls who would shun the normal, gadgetized course, also appeals to pupils with widely varying talents. At Taunton High School, pupils have cut short their lunch hours to get in extra work, are apt to hang around the labs long after everyone but the basketball team has quit...
Manifold Pressures. In Columbus, Ohio, a TWA Constellation made an unscheduled landing, and police took Flight Engineer Eugene Manning to a hospital, where, after 24 uncertain hours, the trouble was diagnosed as air sickness...
March stated that the exact relationship of his organization to the HSA was uncertain. The Grille will use none of the Agency's facilities, he explained, so that there is no real advantage of membership in the agency...