Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without Prisoner Hauptmann's paying the supreme penalty for his crime was indicated last week when Governor Hoffman declared: "If Bruno Hauptmann were to be electrocuted tonight there would still be in my mind and, I am convinced, in the minds of hundreds of thousands of people, great doubt that the Lindbergh baby murder had been solved completely and that all the facts in connection with it were known...
...vernacular and English language Press fulminating in the vein of New Delhi's Statesman: "The proposals are already dead. The Negus and the whole world will not have them. Sir Samuel Hoare has done irreparable damage to the Baldwin Government and to the moral leadership of Britain." No doubt Editor Garvin thought he was seeing eye-to-eye with King George when he added in the Sunday Observer: "Further sanctions intended to throttle Italy would set fire to the world. . . . The air would rain terrors of the Apocalypse. . . . All statesmen who had taken part in these woes would earn...
Burroughs has photographed many of the leading American works about which there has been doubt as to who the painter was. In some cases, however, he has been unable to convince the experts that he was right, for the X-Ray is a fairly recent development, and there is tendency to ignore his findings...
Struck dumb with Harvard's good fortune in being the beneficiary of Mr. Littauer's munificence, we can say only that the purpose for which the gift is intended is worthy of it, and that Harvard is deserving of every congratulation. Our only doubt is in the existence of any assurance that the men trained in this school will find recognition and the opportunity to make use of their talents in a still political civil service. Our government must live up to our universities. --Yale News
...having heard the testimony on both sides can doubt that if there is not a legal obligation on the part of the Church, there is a high moral obligation. ... It is true that repudiation of debts, and bankruptcy, in this day, is looked upon with favor by individuals, corporations, and even Governments, but for such repudiation, in a case of this kind, to come from men preaching the Religion of God, is not understandable. The position held by the Church in the minds and hearts of men would be greatly shaken, no matter which way this case may be decided...