Word: uncertained
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Juan Bautista Perez dedicated a white marble pantheon over the ashes of El Libertador. Dictator Gomez remained prudently on his heavily guarded model farm. Oldsters mourned the fact that Cenizo was no longer living to take part in the ceremony. Cenizo, as all Caracans remember, was a dog of uncertain parentage who for nearly ten years slept on the base of the Bolivar statue in the Plaza Bolivar, appointed himself its official guardian, grew fat and imperious on the bounty of cafe proprietors, was the only dog ever to be an Honorary Citizen of the Republic of Venezuela...
...Author. Arthur Stuart Menteth Hutchinson made many a reader weep with his bestseller, If Winter Comes. Four years ago he married Una Rosamond Bristow-Gapper, who wrote to him admiringly on a postcard. Simon is their only child. Other books: This Freedom, One Increasing Purpose, The Uncertain Trumpet, The Clean Heart, The Happy Warrior...
...officer Cuff and the final acceptance of the verdict whatever it might be is an anticlimax and a considerable let down from the highly dramatic moment just preceding. The charm of Michael and Mary remains but the play of their life just dwindles away into hopes for an uncertain future...
...craft engines would be, roughly speaking, only half the battle. Much of the noise of planes - some say 50%, some say "most" is caused by the propeller itself.*The Aeronautics Research Division of the Department of Commerce has been studying the problem for two years, is still uncertain as to the exact process by which propeller noise is created. Of the solution, however, it is certain : "The only positive method known of reducing propeller noise is to reduce the tip speed by using a geared propeller." Geared propellers are in use, will be more generally adopted as difficulties of weight...
...year on "development," proving substantially that he had discovered oil (or mineral) on his land. In 1920 Congress passed an act which substituted leasing for sale of public oil land to private interests. When the leasing act became effective, many oil prospectors held pre-1920 land claims of uncertain validity. If they could prove their compliance with the old law, they could keep their land; if not, the property reverted to the U. S. Big oil companies had bought up the land patents of original locators, were gravely troubled about their titles...