Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...posters advertising the show Miss Swanson is said to have a voice "as lovely as herself". This applies only to the talking parts, where indeed it is good, but when she sings, the synchronization instruments fail to function properly and the reproduction is rather uncertain...
...foretold, but the greatest stock crisis in history can hardly be designated as a technical readjustment. Whether the decline in what admittedly was an inflated market was touched off by the hammering of bear fools that finally tapped a layer of stop loss orders, whether the some what uncertain business conditions that appeared in September particularly in the direction of automobiles, "specialties" and rubber brought the shift in public opinion, whether the recent discussion of the Massachusetts, Public Utilities' Commission unsettled the upward movement, or whether the Bank of England's raising its rate a month ago exerted the final...
...while that team A was running through its signal drill, team B was having a stiff workout with the Seconds. Coach Horween indicated by this that the status of many men was still uncertain. Talbot and Myerson were both given hard tests at guard while Putnam was given an opportunity to show just what he could do at halfback. Incidentally that was Myerson's first hard work since the Army game...
...meeting of graduate students, while I was talking with the professor who had made the address of the evening, President Eliot came up to disagree with him face to face. The attack, though not personally hostile, was energetic. 'I said to myself', he declared, 'the trumpet gives an uncertain sound.' The lecturer, in the nervous weariness that follows nervous effort, was not quite ready for a series of comments like that. 'Excuse me, Mr. Eliot,' he said, 'but this is a subject on which I know more than you.' The President's face showed no trace of resentment...
...prejudice Harvard's chances to obtain the meet. It is certain that the event would prove a gala opening for the new pool and would do immeasurable good in stimulating interest in aquatic sports in Cambridge. It is to be hoped that what is now at best only an uncertain rumor may some day become a fact...