Word: uncertain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...these is Christ, who has brought forward almost conclusive philological evidence in regard to the order of composition of the parts of the Iliad. It is certain that they were composed in an order very different from that in which we have them. The question of authorship is more uncertain. One poet probably conceived the main plan of the Iliad, but the outline was filled in and considerably enlarged by later poets...
...almost incredible piece of news meets the students this morning. Adelbert Shaw, the great, strong athlete of the freshman class, was drowned while rowing on the river Monday afternoon. The story of the accident is a very uncertain one, and can at best only be surmised. Shaw went down to the boat house with the rest of the crew Monday afternoon, and as the barge was full Captain Perkins decided to let him go out in a single, first making sure that he could manage it, and that he knew how to swim. The crew rowed down to the basin...
...Glidden jerks his arms at the finish and is uncertain at catch...
...been heard from the Boat Club in regard to the instructorship in rowing which the Corporation declared itself willing to create. We learn in fact that the Boat Club, in whose hands the matter was left, has taken no action. What their exact stand on the question is seems uncertain-so uncertain as to raise a doubt whether they understand exactly how the case is. Perhaps the executive officers of the Boat Club share, with many others in college, the opinion that an instructor in rowing must necessarily be the coach of the 'varsity crew. If such is their understanding...
...Thompson 156 pounds. Finishes badly, being unsteady and uncertain of himself...