Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitutions, free love and growing babies--however interesting--will never change ideas petrified with political emotion. Some people can be convinced only in terms of numbers and majorities; our representatives, it seems to me, are of that unfortunate sort. If the bill is repealed; which, bless my soul, I doubt, it will not be because of ideals, appeal to reason or even to common sense but because the committee is made to fear a majority is against it. This be sorry business and as a merry Vagabond it makes me feel dirty even to talk about...
...Republican candidate was typical of Mr. Farley's breezy confidence concerning the reelection of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States. "Oh, that's all right--don't you worry about that!" he replied to a discreet query about the election this autumn. Not a shadow of doubt about the issue was betrayed in the Farley smile and the suave Farley manner as he joked with "the boys...
...uncommon skill and ease, acted with a simplicity completely suited to the music. Earlier in the season there were critics who feared for Flagstad's voice, wondered if she were not trying to work it too hard (TIME, Dec. 23). Last week it sounded amazingly fresh, proved without doubt that she is the great singer...
...five months, was 186,270.75 mi. per sec. Best modern figure for light's speed, this is almost 14 mi. per sec. slower than the results of ten years ago. Inconstancies between individual measurements were ascribed to experimental error or "disturbing influences of unknown origin." But no doubt was expressed that the true velocity of light is indeed a constant constant...
There is no doubt that quantum mechanics has seized hold of a beautiful element of truth, and that it will be a test stone for any future theoretical basis. . . . However, I do not believe that quantum mechanics will be the starting point in the search...