Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Please discontinue sending us TIME. Your biased attitude on political questions made us doubt the fairness of your opinions on other subjects as well...
...question which remains open is how much the Government can afford to pay all the aged. Intelligent people agree the Townsend Plan is absurd; the Roosevelt Social Security Bill, however, is still open to doubt, whether the provision of the eventual 9.3% pay-roll tax of 1949, and $15 to $20 per month payments, lies above or below the humane and the possible...
...discrimination one of its essential characteristics? Is it to judge a man's character and worth by the accident of his parent's birthplace? Is it to restrict or regulate a person's opportunities by the history of his grandparents? The terms of the bequest imply all that. We doubt, however, whether these elements represent the ideals and culture of the United States as expressed by such Americans as Jefferson, Washington, Lincoln or Theodore Roosevelt. Certainly the Constitution of the United States is a basic factor of American culture, yet it offers the presidency of the United States...
...rubber plantations, model farms. When they failed he sold them to the Government. When they succeeded he kept the change. For years the legend persisted that Dictator Gomez kept a yacht with steam up night & day in case it should ever be necessary to flee the country. Most authorities doubt such a yarn...
Autopsy surgeons can spot a lifelong city-dweller by the accumulation of soot in his lungs. Effect of this on health remains unknown, but there is no doubt that coal smoke is a costly nuisance. Dr. Furnas foresees cities made clean by complete conversion of coal into fuel gas at the mine, by piping the clean-burning gas to metropolitan centres. Gas distilled from coal leaves a coke residue-which can also be converted by the water-gas process. Currently, artificial gas for heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three...