Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): for blindness caused by inflammation of the cornea, certain skin disorders...
This week the speculative blush in paper and foods had spread to sugar and shipping stocks, but without developing a very high color. For U. S. business was as bewildered by the turn of events as any Norwegian soldier. One thing was certain: the U. S. had lost an export market. And none pulled out of it faster than Moore-McCormack Lines, No. 1 U. S.-to-Scandinavia ship-operator. Day of Blitzkrieg's beginning, Moore-McCormack got busy on the radio. To Mormacstar and Mormactide, far out in the Atlantic, Scandinavia-bound, went orders to [ turn about, keep...
...sophistication outwardly evident in a billowing grey mop and man-about-town monocle, Francophile Janet Planner still has a certain girlish naïveté. Her friends remember that when Vanity Fair asked her for a series on French murders she objected that Americans wouldn't be interested because French murders were so different from American murders...
...Certain small sections in Eliot and Dunster Houses, Straus and Hollis Halls in the Yard, still present reception problems but before long will be able to receive perfectly...
Beautiful quadrangles, even Harvard's are no recompense for God's country, and every spring the Cambridge-cooped undergraduate has growing pains. He feels within him the stirring of a certain urge. He longs for one thing--to strike out onto the open road, of course. A privileged bourgeois Few mount bicycles, but the average Many have naught but a narrow strip of river bank, a muddy line of turf, to satisfy their longing. Unorganized as the meekest sweated dressmakers, they grope blindly and independently, without help and mutual encouragement...