Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Referring to the late Lord Lothian's speech of two days ago in which he said that America must decide whether it is to her interest to give whatever assistance may be necessary in order to make certain that Britain shall not fall, the three professors said "The British campaign to bring America into the war has opened very inauspiciously...
...drawing near. The Ambassador does not protend that aid by measures short of war will be enough for Great Britain in her present need. He states frankly that America must decide whether it is to her interest to give Britain "whatever assistance may be necessary in order to make certain that Britain shall not fall...
...Acquaintance," which brings Lady Jane Cowl and Peggy Wood to Boston in a pre-Broadway opening, is a diluted mixture of "The Women" and "The Animal Kingdom" without that certain something which made those two comedies successful. Its plot tells at great length how an aging litterateuse, Miss Cowl, loses her last paramour. How she could ever have caught one must be classed as a deus ex machina. Miss Wood is convincing as the feline crony...
...home consumption the Italian accounts made heady reading-most necessary so soon after Taranto. But certain prime facts remained: 1) the Italian Fleet had run from the British, as always; 2) it had failed to intercept another shipment of British war materiel and man power to the Middle East; 3) operating from Naples or Cagliari, it cannot defend Italy's oversea supply line to Africa as well as it could from Taranto before the British got into Crete...
Stumped by a question directed at him when he guested for Information, Please, fat, choleric, brain-trusting Defense Commissioner Leon ("Leon the Hen") Henderson reddened, mumbled: "The man who submitted that question can receive a $50 reward from a certain friend of mine, who wanted to see me embarrassed." The bounty-setter: William S. Knudsen...