Word: uncertain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate accidents marred the practice this wek as last year's varsity stroke fractured a rib while rowing on the junior varsity. How long he will be out is still uncertain. Also, varsity coxswain Barry Peale came down with a face rash, forcing Love to substitute the 3rd boat coxswain into the first shell for several practices...
Other private schools, which have a tradition of admissions at the eighth or seventh grade level, find many of the same problems, slightly altered, that Harvard does. The record of a child who has reached the eighth grade is an uncertain thing at best. A boy who starts prep school this early and does not do well scholastically will be outdistanced further and further as outstanding "new boys" come in to his school...
...Chinese pushed toward Lhasa, the Tibetan National Assembly sent an urgent plea to the United Nations for help against the aggressors. It was rejected with the pious hope that China and Tibet would unite peacefully. The uncertain Tibetan government called on the State Oracle to decide what the Dalai Lama should do. He urged flight...
...field events, the situation is uncertain. Gene Reese of Army has come from nowhere to be a prime contender in the hammer, joining teammate Ed Bagdonas and Al Dorris. The Crimson's Jim Doty and Stan Doten could finish high in the hammer, as could Doten and John Bronstein in the discus. Keith Nance of Army is the favorite in the shot, but Henry Abbot and Steve Cohen could score well for the varsity...
...geometric figures of his own invention and picturing them, precisely arranged, on vacuum-cleaned stage sets. His figures seem about to spring into action, like the Tin Woodman of Oz. They could not look more mute; yet they speak of the human condition. Vintage of Uncertainties cruelly evokes the uncertain aspects of motherhood. The Oracle delicately poses a horrendous question: Which is the Oracle? Who is to be believed...