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Word: uncertainly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stays at the villa most of the time," said Chang, but he seemed to be a little uncertain of his answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, may 17, 1954 | 5/17/1954 | See Source »

Coach Josh Williams is uncertain who the sixth man in today's team championship play-offs will be. Ted Cooney, Bruce. Thurmond, Bill McAllister, Tom Jones, and Captain Jack Brophy will definitely start for the varsity, with either Doug Boyd or Kent Brown playing number six. The only man graduating this year is Brophy, who will play his last varsity match today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Golfers End Season With New Englands | 5/14/1954 | See Source »

Exactly how the "Back to the College Movement" under President Pusey will effect this college-university system is uncertain. Much has already been done through General Education to cut down specialization which the graduate schools brought to the Yard. And the strengthened tutorial program has tightened faculty-undergraduate relations...

Author: By Steven C. Swett, | Title: Great Debate: Small College vs. University | 5/12/1954 | See Source »

Actually, Key members were uncertain what their role in future weekends will be if there are any future all-College weekends. In his report, President William D. Coakley '55 recommended first that the Key abandon the Saturday night formal, and then, that the Key urge "the continuation of the All-College Weekend in a new form. What this form will be we are not yet sure," Coakley said...

Author: By Bruce B. Paul, | Title: Crimson Key Society Votes To Drop All-College Dance | 5/7/1954 | See Source »

...Paris copy clerks and move to the country, Bouvard and Pecuchet hop from one intellectual endeavor to the other. Their failure at preserving vegetables leads them to chemistry, and each successive disappointment leads to a new venture: geology, biology, medicine, verse, politics, literary criticism. Each new "study" leaves them uncertain and confused, but they feel sure that with one more book, one more discovery, a certain subject will become entirely clear to them...

Author: By E. H. Harvey, | Title: Satire And Sympathy: Flaubert | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

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