Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first serious Senate sound-off on the AAA decision, Nebraska's old, white-crested George William Norris spoke for two hours in spite of the limitation on debate. Declared this Republican New Dealer: "I have no doubt of [the bill's] constitutionality but I say, frankly, I do doubt whether it can receive the approval of the Supreme Court. ... I think the [AAA] decision is an amendment to the Constitution, but that is not new. The Court has amended the Constitution before. In fact, the Supreme...
...Senator Robinson might have saved his breath. In an election year the U. S. Senate would grant itself the benefit of any reasonable doubt. With Senators from the industrial Northeast voicing a footless "No," the farm bill was thumped through the Senate, 56-to-20, sent to the House...
Hastily added Lord Marley. "No doubt many citizens have similar ones!" It was then promised that the bill will be amended...
...could not have repudiated more strikingly the explanation which he gave for postponing the execution last month. Then in justifying his action he said, "I . . . share with hundreds of thousands of our people the doubt as to the value of the evidence that placed (Hauptmann) in the Lindbergh nursery on the night of the crime . . ." Although he has at the present time stronger doubts than ever, he does not intend to defer the execution again...
...completes the program. This work, composed in 1906, is the last of the symphonies which the seventy-year old Russian has written. Unlike many of his countrymen, Glazounov does not give his music a pervasive tone of pessimism. Instead, he has acquired a spirit of optimism--a product no doubt of the comparatively easy and successful path along which the course of his life has run. To him, the problem in music is that of perfection, not of experimentation. B. G. Wells' description of the man who "walks backwards into the future" might easily be applied to him. Indeed...