Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dead in my office!" Why did the jewel expert M. Emile Farault appraise as genuine jewels some synthetic emeralds said by Stavisky to belong to a company headed by the Emperor of Ethiopia and thus enable them to be pawned at a fabulous profit by Stavisky? "I had no doubt of their value!" swore Defendant Farault last week. "Ah, no! I never had any river pebbles in my hands!" Why did 75-year-old retired General Joseph Bardi de Fourtou lend his name as "front" to one of the Stavisky companies? On the stand last week the nervous old General...
...careful of diagnoses, and when there is doubt refrain from "affixing a label...
...could doubt the sincerity of the Yale News' leading editorial printed elsewhere on this page. Every phrase exudes the innocence and simplicity of a first outbreak of pimples. Surely it must be fun to have a hero, to startle our parents with naughty ideas, "epater le bourgeois...
...every lump of the nation's soft coal last week fell a new 15% Federal tax, 90% of which will be rebated to producers who sign the NRA-like code prescribed by the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act of 1935. Moving promptly to resolve what President Roosevelt called "doubt, however reasonable," as to the Act's constitutionality, President James W. Carter of Virginia's and West Virginia's Carter Coal Co. lost one decision to the Government, won one against his family in District of Columbia Supreme Court...
...have treated 7,513 patients with supra-corcin, our extract of the adrenal cortex. Of these, 3,872 died before they could receive the minimum amount of treatment needed for more than relief from pain. We selected 1,040 of the others because there was no doubt that they had hopeless, inoperable cancer. Five years after treatment 53 or 5% of these 1,040 are entirely free from any sign of cancer. In another 55 cases the growths have become inactive...