Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juicy dividends to stockholders. Last week for the first time a 70-car bill, introduced by Nevada's McCarran, was passed by the U. S. Senate, without a record vote. The Senate sent it to the House, where a parallel bill was marking time in committee. Observers were uncertain just how favorably the House would view the bill, but were agreed that the 70-car measure was in a better spot than ever before in its legislative history...
...C.I.O. regarding wages, hours and other conditions of employment, but decline to put that agreement in writing. That is not true. No such agreement, oral or otherwise, has been reached. That does not mean, however, that the terms of employment now in effect with our employes are indefinite or uncertain or subject to unreasonable or arbitrary changes. They have been reduced to writing in form of notices which have been posted in all plants to which they apply or otherwise announced in writing to all our employes...
Your comments on my letter about the passing of TIME (May 17) have disturbed me. Let me say in no uncertain terms that I hope for TIME'S eternal survival. It came into the drabbest field of writing (news reporting) and made it the gayest. It has done the reading public an inestimable service and deserves heartfelt appreciation...
...order to become a serious contender for the championship, Mitchell must find or develop another pitcher. A1 Colwell, veteran catcher, has an excellent slow ball and slight curve, but his ability to last nine innings is uncertain. With Dick Walsh and Don Prouty evidently unable to make the grade, Mitchell's only alternative is Slim Curtiss, who hurled winning ball for the undefeated Freshman nine last year...
...doesn't Mr. Etna, "The Mountain", have much to do with their way of life? There have been some 80 eruptions. Might not another come tomorrow? Even now! Life is uncertain. But there is always the present, always a song, always the sea to look upon. and so the live...