Word: certain
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Winner. CBS President Frank Nicholas Stanton, 42, who spearheaded the CBS color fight, stands just under 6 ft. and weighs 175 Ibs. His expression is at once attentive and stolid; his strong jaw is often clamped firmly on a pipestem. A certain lack of facial animation, together with his carefully parted, yellow-blond hair, have led wags to call him "the Veronica Lake...
...pound; there is a depression approaching from the Azores; and I have a bet on a horse which will infallibly lose. The Government is notoriously inefficient, but since Governments always are there is no reason for astonishment or indignation . . .' Having completed this catalogue of disaster there is a certain satisfaction in [concluding] 'it might be worse'-and since it is a phrase which . . . has served very well from the Spanish Armada to the London blitz we are not likely to abandon...
...back in the world again. St. John's Abbey at Collegeville, Minn, had accepted cheery, spectacled Don Foster for a year of study before entering the novitiate. Now that the year was almost up, the abbey and Mr. Foster announced merely that he was "unable to meet certain requirements at this time" which were necessary before permission could be granted to exchange his married life for a monastic...
...affectionate eye for human trivia, Churchill never lost sight of the main objective. When he speaks of that, casting up accounts as they stood in mid-1943, the Churchillian prose rolls with the old indomitable diapason: "The entry of the United States into the struggle . . . had made it certain that the cause of Freedom would not be cast away. But between survival and victory there are many stages . . . Henceforward . . . the danger was not Destruction but Stalemate [yet] the hinge had turned...
...group, in order to be recognized, to show "evidence of financial solvency." This prerequisite, which meant something different to its sponsors, is now, to us, in obvious contradiction to the rule that "Each organization shall be fully responsible for its own finances." If a group has to fulfill certain (unspecified) requirements as to finances before it becomes recognized, it clearly is not solely responsible for its won finances. The faculty committee might well have questioned the solvency requirement in the name of self-reliance...