Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...news was withheld for several hours. Then President Roosevelt, cruising on the Tuscaloosa in the Caribbean, sent a message to King George VI: "I am shocked beyond measure to hear of the sudden passing of my old friend and your Ambassador, the Marquess of Lothian. I am very certain that if he had been allowed by Providence to leave us a last message he would have told us that the greatest of all efforts to retain democracy in the world must and will succeed...
...affairs." 2) "To promote a better understanding of current political questions. . . ."3) "To encourage competent men and women . . . to seek public office through the machinery of our two-party system." Said Original Willkie Booster Oren Root: "Our position is the same [as before the election] in that there are certain fundamental principles of government and of life in which we believe just as much today as we did two months...
Further, Hitler had announced that he would dictate peace in London in August, or at the latest by the middle of September. And had not he always been right about his military dates? Was it not certain that England was going to be conquered and that with Hitler's crossing of the Channel the end of the British Commonwealth would come...
...first World War, says Liddell Hart, the best younger brains of the Army saw that machines would dominate future wars. But tenaciously conservative elder officers held to antique ways of foot and horse. In 1934 Chief of Imperial General Staff General Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd declared: "It is certain that if we do not go slowly with mechanization we shall land ourselves in difficulties...
Kirkland with six triumphs and a single setback could not be certain of the crown until the last moment, because Adams was in a position to split the honors. In the final tabulation, Adams was one point behind with one loss, and a deadlock. The other teams in order were Dunster, Lowell, Dudley, Eliot, Leverett, and Winthrop...