Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...third boat before Easter vacation, Bus Curwen has finally wrested the stroke position from Harry Fowler. Dave Challinor, Jerry Prince, and Dave Glass in seven, six, and five seem pretty certain of their positions at present, but the seating in the bow four presents a ticklish problem...
Since the last World Series there have been many "incidents" leading up to our war. For one simple thing, it has been ruled that the Yankees can't trade in their league. For another more complicated item, a certain Judge Landis, of the Kenesaw Mountain Landises (distant kin of the local, urban L.L.D. Landises) has TNECed the great monopoly mystery of chain store baseball and declared an army of free agents. For still one more, and this may prove most important of all, it has been decided that the pitchers may in delivering the ball take two steps with...
...class of microbes which take the gentian violet and iodine stain developed by Hans Christian Joachim Gram of Denmark. Gramicidin protects mice against huge doses of virulent pneumococci and all the other blue-staining germs so far tested. Since the tubercle bacillus belongs to this group, it seems almost certain to succumb to gramicidin...
...exporters were somewhat calmed by their knowledge of Britain's rising costs at home, high wartime delivery costs by sea. Nor was it certain that Britons themselves wanted a cheap pound. When the decline began, the London Economist suggested extending exchange control over more British products, "strangling" the free pound market "to its smallest possible proportions." Last week the gap between the pound's two prices had had little real effect on U. S. trade except to intrigue traders. More than intrigued were U. S. customs officials. Required by law to consider both prices (since both...
...Phoenix, El Paso, Dallas, Atlanta, Miami. Nothing like it had been seen since the search for Scarlett O'Hara. Miss Spirituals "must have a spiritual look," must be between 18 and 22, must not smoke or drink, must go to church regularly. In addition, they must have a certain zip. Says Preacher Jardine: "I want to de-oomph the Oomph Girl...