Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...social agitators prefer to leave unmentioned in their "demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap. However, whether she did or not, I am only wondering why four strokes from a mule's belly-strap in Arkansas is so much more noticeable and so much...
There was no doubt that the New Deal was showing a sudden interest in cooperation. An outright endorsement of consumer co-operatives was originally drafted for the Democratic platform, though the plank was finally whittled down to an innocuous statement about narrowing the spread between producer and consumer prices. In Scribner's, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace lately suggested cooperation as the answer to the title of his article, "The Search For An American Way." Elaborating an a book called Whose Constitution? published last week, Secretary Wallace declared: "Producer cooperatives are not enough. . . . The co-operative way of life must...
...pouring, houses toppling, streets gaping and a city burning, it includes enough squeaking, howling, booming and crashing to shake the rafters of the sturdiest cinemansion. An earthquake in the real Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer manner, it lasts for 20 minutes on the screen and in all respects except casualties no doubt betters its original of 30 years...
Like all cover-to-cover readers of TIME, I am eagerly looking forward to the forthcoming issue of America's Newsmagazine for your thorough review of the Republican National Convention. No doubt your able correspondents covered well all sessions, but it is quite probable that they missed several interesting sidelights...
...good proverb that the study of man be the candle of the Lord. And I was also glad to hear come from the President the value of character building in education; for I know, though this be a difficult and drippy subject, yet no wise man will doubt that learning without gentlemaness is a great failure. Yet I know this is one of the greatest failings of our entire educational system. Bless my soul, already ther are too many stuffy encyclopaedias without a warm thought...