Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That very great mathematician War Minister Paul Painlevétwice Premier of France during 1925, solved last week an equation in army discipline wherein the uncertain quantity was une femme...
...logic of the situation would be powerfully against Mr. Hoover were it not for the fact that the opposition to him is uncertain and somewhat divided...
When Dr. Griggs turns his guns for a broadside at the colleges themselves, his aim is rather uncertain. "Money is given too easily and too freely to the colleges," he asserts, "to be of value. Because of these gifts from outside, the colleges have changed." The validity of this assumption may be questioned by those who devote weary hours to canvassing for endowment funds, or to careful budgeting so that even poor professorial salaries may be paid. And, even if Doctor Griggs were right, he fails to capitalize his statement, beyond the exceedingly vague deduction that "the colleges have changed...
...country, has more than once gone the way of all good epigrams--to its refutation. And now, exception has once more been taken to it, for, in the current number of The Nineteenth Century and After, appears an article by P. S. Richards which extols, in no uncertain terms, Professor Irving Babbitt as among the foremost, if not the most eminent, of contemporary constructive critics...
Coach H.H. Haines of the Freshman crew has been spending the past few days giving his men individual instruction. It is, as yet, uncertain when he will have his first three shells race. The prospects for a strong first-year contingent this season are unusually good, a number of the candidates having had preparatory school rowing experience...