Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Battling till the end, the rugby team lost a hard-fought match to Princeton at Soldiers Field on Saturday, 11-6. The outcome of the contest was uncertain until the last minute of play when Princeton scored the winning...
...wholesale liquidation of peasants in the process of collectivization of the land. Now it is revealed that collectivization did not render the peasant secure; he is still being purged. No wonder, as the new decree reveals, that 'this artificially creates discontent and wrath and makes many collective farmers uncertain of their position.' No wonder, despite all the discriminations against them, that individual farmers are described as having advantages over many collective farmers. Henceforth it is ordered that members of the collectives must receive at least 60% of the money income of the enterprise. All this reveals more than...
Coach Fred Mitchell is uncertain about his choice for starting pitcher, but indicated that it will be Mahoney, Tom Healy, or Don Prouty. If today's encounter in any way resembles B. U.'s 18-10 slug-fest victory last year at Riverside, it is highly likely that all three moundmen will see duty for the Crimson...
Aside from his calamitous reduction of Paraguay's man power. Dictator Lopez' great claim to distinction was his love for Eliza Alicia Lynch. Eliza was a needle-witted Irish girl of uncertain background who became his mistress in Paris, bore him four sons, and was charged by his enemies with having egged him on to his worst atrocities. Although Author Barrett works hard to make her a glamorous figure, he seems to be fighting against odds almost as great as those that destroyed Lopez. To her credit he emphasizes that she was devoted to the dictator, followed...
...darkened parlor, not the sunny tavern-and-haystack life which Duveneck and his pupils actually led. Artist Duveneck entered parlor society briefly in 1886 through his marriage to Elizabeth Boott, a refined Bostonian traveler straight out of Henry James. After her death in 1888 his painting became uncertain, yielded to impressionist influences, infrequently showed his old spontaneity...