Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...little more than two weeks, the Republican Party will gather itself together, go to Philadelphia, make up its mind. That mind was still wandering last week. All that seemed certain was: 1) Thomas E. Dewey and Robert Alphonso Taft would go to the convention with more delegates than anyone else; 2) neither would have enough to win on the first ballot. Plentiful were the guesses that a dark horse might romp away with the nomination. The most rambunctious dark horse, getting more rambunctious daily, was Wendell Willkie, onetime Democrat...
Both London and Paris put their propaganda machines to work, broadcast appeals to the Italian people not to fight, but warned them that if they wanted war they would get it. Now that war was certain, it no longer mattered much when it began...
There are certain obstacles as well as advantages which are peculiar to the short-story-illustrator. Howard Turner, I imagine, in order to produce a satisfactory illustration, must rely as much upon his ability to grasp the situation and circumstances of a story as upon his ability to manipulate a pencil. On the other hand, because of the necessary limits which are imposed upon the operations of an artist who is working with an article or an editorial, both Holabird and Bishop must be direct rather than subtle. Only in rare cases can the illustrator be called his own master...
...they must be recognized as the tender yet tenacious roots of an incipient American Fascism that may not have to take off its hat to any breed of Fascism grown abroad. Even if they provide no tremendous threat in themselves, and this is not by any means certain, they can serve as precedents for far more injurious movements in the not too distant future. America's battle against Fascism is in America, not Europe; Fascism in this country will not be caused by insidious international plotters, but by sincere though short-sighted one-hundred per cent Americans; and we must...
...Guatemalan jungles, but even a white man can put up with an hour or so down there. Ann Sheridan, of course, cooperates with the mosquitoes and the yellow fever to make the place unpleasant. There were some rather crude members of the audience at the Metropolitan who whistled at certain sequences built upon her specialized sort of appeal, but it is hard to see why. While it is true that she has learned from Busby Berkeley, or perhaps his best friend, to sashay her hips around while walking down the street, the fact remains that she sags in the wrong...