Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Democratic National Committee chose Houston, Tex., last week for its 1928 convention city, it was really the choice of a solid North, calculating to coax an uncertain South. San Francisco, Detroit and Cleveland were eager bidders. Houston won, with a small auditorium and ominous late-June climate, for three reasons...
Germany chuckled yesterday when it saw Secretary Kellogg's answer to the Briand treaty proposition which called for a signed resolution against all war between France and America. The editors of the Fatherland accused France in no uncertain terms of making a mere stage play to insure kind treatment from Congress when it comes to revise the plans for debt settlement. The return proposal from Washington that all the nations unite in signing this solemn compact for the outlawry of war took the wind out of French Sails. Their aim had been, according to their former enemies, to secure themselves...
Such of us as departed for Cambridge last week-end with the prepossession that it is a fastness of solemn serenity and serious sobriety returned in another persuasion. Our ancient rivals opened their hearts and larders to us in no uncertain fashion. It is a great place. The traditional intellectuality of Harvard seems to have reached that point in its life cycle which is best characterized by the cant term of decadent. They are over the peak. Their manners and personal graces are those of the Restoration, their collective temperament a shade in the direction of Baudelaire. A more charming...
...uncertain whether Buell will entirely resign his coaching duties at the University. News of his resignation from the staff of Crimson mentors has been rumorod, but no confirmation has been obtained. Mr. Field stated last night that the responsibilities of the Milton post would make it difficult for Buell to devote much time to coaching at the University. Buell himself could not be reached last evening, and officials of the H.A.A. declined to comment...
...Jersey side. That situation finally induced the two state legislatures to order the tunnel built. Their tunnel commissions chose Holland's plans and made him chief engineer. His wife last week told how he worked: "Evening after evening he remained at work. Our dinner hour was always uncertain. If we induced him to attend the theatre, he always went back to the tunnel afterward, spending hours in the field offices and personally supervising the work." It exhausted him and he died, 1924, of heart failure. The states made his tunnel a horizontal shaft over his memory...