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Word: uncertain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other two Sophomores are T. F. Mason '30 and J. W. Potter '30, whose status is still somewhat, uncertain. It is an open question as to whether they are second string backs playing, as part of the Crimson strategical program, on Team A. or are actually rated by the coaches next to J. P. Crosby '28 as the most reliable members of the University backfield squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SQUAD LEAVES TODAY FOR CLASH WITH PENN | 11/3/1927 | See Source »

These violently uncertain elements were whipped into a poignant pageant of emotion by Rouben Mamoulian. Before Porgy opened, his name meant nothing. The next morning he had three offers from envious producers to come over and stage shows for them. He is 30, an Armenian-Russian; forsook law studies in Moscow to learn his trade in the Third Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. He was directing for the Eastman Theatre in Rochester when he sought and found a small niche at the Guild. When the directors were exhausted trying to select a suitable director for the treacherously difficult Porgy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 24, 1927 | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

When the last rays of the setting sun peep out from behind a rain soaked cloud this afternoon to strike over the colonnade of the giant Allston horseshoe, practically no one will be struck. The game will not be held in the Stadium. The time is also uncertain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN AND CRIMSON SCRIBES TO MEET IN TOUCH FOOTBALL | 10/21/1927 | See Source »

Feng Yu-hsiang, onetime "Chinese Christian Soldier," whose military affiliations, as always, are uncertain, but who has two armies, one to the north-west and one to the south-west of Peking, and for the nonce is backing the Nationalist or Southern cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: War Resumed | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Next week, the Boilermakers will invade New England for the first time. What will be the results of that game are uncertain except in the minds of the Boilermakers: But, let it be said every man on the team that will attempt to efface the Crimson of "dear old Harvard" will do his level best to let the East know that somewhere in a hamlet in the Middle West is located a school called Purdue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/8/1927 | See Source »

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