Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...stuffed full of articles he'd been reading lately about Labor. He'd read one about Labor and National Defense that had seemed rather nasty--it quoted several Congressmen as urging "concentration camps" for certain "unpatriotic" labor leaders who wouldn't "cooperate." ... He'd heard Alfred Sloan and Professor Seavey talk about the need for labor to "sacrifice" some of its gains, and he'd heard Professor Elliott speak of knowing how to "deal with dissident elements." ... Most of all, Vag had heard talk about the need for doing away with the right to strike in defense industries...
...made this possible were last week becoming apparent. They could be summed up in one military moral : the Greek Army knew how to use what it had. For example, it is said that one bomb tipped the scale at Corizza. Knowing that Italian reserves were being rushed along a certain road, a Greek general sent for some of the few British Blenheims available to him. They arrived in time, knocked out a bridge over which the Italians must pass, machine-gunned the halted column on the far side. Only one of the three Blenheims returned from that foray...
...that their breeding ground was somewhere near the mouth of the Perry River, which runs into the Arctic Ocean at Queen Maud Gulf, southeast of big Victoria Island. Last summer Gillham chartered a plane, flew over the Perry River region, saw so many of the birds that he was certain the breeding grounds were there. But floating ice in the bay prevented a landing...
...Louis Napoleon. Like California's Zorro, he acts the fop in public, climbs into a black hood in private, lashes out at intrigue with his lethal, hardworking sword. Because nothing, including the eventual death of scheming, scar-faced Gurko Lanen (George Sanders), comes as a surprise, a certain necessary element of suspense is missing from these adventures...
...Boston Transcript, on November 23, announced further developments in this plan: "Plans for an entirely new type of government work-service camp, differing substantially from the CC program, were disclosed hero today . . . . The project has been approved by a committee of the National Defense Council . . . it appears reasonably certain that the camp will have the official backing of the government." The chairman of the sponsoring group answered in a reassuring manner a query concerning those who plan to work at the camp: "...It would be better to have them all in one camp where the community can keep...