Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death in Defeat. Part One is carelessly constructed, uncertain of intention, saved from collapse only by the author's endless wit and invention. Part Two, completed ten years later, shows Cervantes as absolute master of his matter, his manner and his man. Don Quixote makes a manifesto out of his guiding conviction: "Leave it to God, and everything will come out all right." People begin to take him half seriously, but misadventures come thick & fast. "I perceive now that one must actually touch with his hands what appears to the eye if he is to avoid being deceived...
...problem was that Lustron needed an additional $14.5 million. But with that, most of RFC's allotment would be spent, and even then Lustron's success was uncertain. If RFC refused the new loan, the $37.5 million lent was down the drain. While RFC waited for a suggestion from Congress, Lustron made some savings. It laid off 600 workers, partly because it had some 400 houses on hand and wanted to sell them before producing any more...
...vast economic progress got one more ringing refutation last week. After long study, Australian economist Colin Clark documented his conclusion that the rate of Soviet production per man-hour of work was less than one-eighth that of the U.S. "Economic progress in Russia," said Clark, "has been uncertain and slow, and the most recent figures indicate that productivity is now only at about [its] 1900 level...
...part of the Holy Roman Empire-the first and only European union. Since then, the single, jagged spire of Strasbourg's red stone cathedral has seen the tides of war sweep back & forth across the Alsatian plain. This week Strasbourg became the center of a great if still uncertain move to revive the dream of European union. In the central hall of Strasbourg's university, delegates from ten European countries assembled in the first session of the Council of Europe...
...uncertain, however, whether the bureau will be. able to influence public pronouncements by such high church dignitaries as Cardinal Spellman (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...