Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ruined him forever in the Western States. In addition to alL these obstacles (beside the rumor that he had been a socialist in college) there were other arguments against the whole idea: it was too late to get a campaign organized; the war had made a Third Term virtually certain; no businessman had a chance against the glamor of Franklin Roosevelt. Nevertheless, these stubborn citizens still believed that Wendell Willkie was the best man to be President...
...mark team, which may make or break itself throughout a rigorous schedule. Material is only surface deep in several spots, but a grid campaign free of costly injuries is long overdue for Dick Harlow and his aides. If the tackles can hold out against the terrific power which is certain to be generated directly at them, Dick Harlow may pull a big surprise and herd his Johnnies right back into the thick of the Big Three scrap...
...much ground on the Somme, Canadian headlines exulted over Allied planes bombing Berlin, and Allied guns blasting Nazi tanks, but Plewman wrote dispassionately: "Whether the Allied Air Forces can give enough help to enable the French Army to stand its ground during the rest of the week is un certain. . . . The French may have to evacuate the Peronne salient and fall back on positions probably well prepared along the Compiegne-Montdidier line...
...book is an examination, chiefly through the Old Testament prophets and the parables of Jesus, of the roots of religion, individualism, science, human conduct, human hope. It is the work of a stonily independent amateur thinker. Winston Churchill is convinced that certain of the prophets, notably Isaiah (a collaboration) and Jesus (if he existed), had hold of a form of science, psychology and self-knowledge which all religions, including Christianity, have repudiated, and which science itself rather scorns than endorses...
...done by the British; U. S. invaders burned Government buildings at York, now Toronto). Incidentally drawing an entertaining portrait of Canada's vague, unsinkable Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, he shows how Canada's "no commitments" policy between wars weakened British foreign policy at certain crucial moments: the Manchurian and Ethiopian crises particularly...