Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There had never been anything like it. Maybe there never would be again. Only those who were actually on the scene knew what it was like. Wendell Willkie's tour of the U. S. was not a mere campaign. It was an extraordinary phenomenon almost certain to make a notable exhibit in the museum of political history. Its ups and its downs were not reasonable. They were a fantastic form of political melodrama...
According to the polls, Wendell Willkie last week seemed close to defeat. But a fact weightier than polls, sharper than experts, still gave him hope: this was 1940, when nothing was certain but the sunrise...
...Suez, Mussolini's Italy. The deadlock in the Battle of Britain, apparently, was about to bring a new Axis strategy into play against this blockade. Hitler undoubtedly visited Mussolini at Brenner Pass last week to talk strategy (see p. 39). German papers began to argue, not without a certain petulance, that Britain could be beaten without a costly invasion. Could it be possible that the war would move south for the winter? Britons hoped so-for this would give Britain's Navy her first chance in the war for a real fight. In the Mediterranean, they were sure...
...circular boasted of the historical notes "included in the margins of many of the maps to clarify certain situations" and told of the cartographer's accuracy "in contrast to the sloppy and inexact maps which have come out in previous years...
Jack Ingalls, stellar pivot man for the Maize and Blue, writes that he "is looking forward to the Harvard game with a great deal of anxiety." Just what he means by that statement is a bit difficult to decide, but as the game draws closer, it seems certain that Harvard will not be snowed under by any landslide. Without attempting to set Harvard up on any pedestal, it is only fair to point out that Michigan is pleased to be on the Crimson schedule. Harvard draws its major game opponents from a rather select group of schools, and would...