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Word: certain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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However, the U. S. Navy now has building: eight battleships, two aircraft carriers, six light cruisers, 29 destroyers, 14 submarines. Still seeking a Guam base (needed only for war in the Pacific), the Navy last week was certain its naval air force was still the world's best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The U. S. & the War | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...surface to create characters who could be the object or the source of any emotion. They pass ineffectively through the story of a novelist. Aherne, finding himself and his worthless son, Louis Hayward, in love with the same painter, Carroll. That the picture suffers from the elimination of certain scenes of the book that might remove the fireless acting is unfortunate, but the result is a drawnout tale of unhappy lives and unhappy children. It is relieved only in the warm and heart-felt showing by Henry Hull and Laraine Day as father-and-daughter friends of the family sucked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 4/27/1940 | See Source »

Expounding his basic philosophy that nothing is certain in the world except change, Howard Baker, instructor in English and one of our rising poets, will give a reading of his works at 4:30 today in the Widener Poetry Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Howard Baker Will Deliver Poetry Reading in Widener | 4/25/1940 | See Source »

...also been our experience that the use of these abridgments encourages a certain type of student to even more questionable methods of passing the examinations." Dean Hanford said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Publisher Starts Contempt Proceeding Against College Tutoring Bureau for Continuing Copyright Violations | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

...first of the legal battles with the Harvard Square cram parlors began in 1921 when President Lowell and the MacMillan Company successfully prosecuted a case against William S. Deak for pirating certain sections of President Lowell's book on "The Government of England." Deak retired from business without fight

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Publisher Starts Contempt Proceeding Against College Tutoring Bureau for Continuing Copyright Violations | 4/24/1940 | See Source »

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