Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another result of these experiments is doubt thrown on the probability that a mercury amalgam was used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury amalgam was used on the face of the mirrors. No effects of a mercury coating have been discovered, and it has been found that the particular alloy of which they are made will polish to a shiny, silver surface. Replicas of the same alloy are now being made for further experimentation...
...There are two causes to doubt whether the University as an institution is put under legal obligations by the act. The first is the point which you appear to have made according to the newspaper items I have seen viz, that the act may be construed as issuing commands only to teachers and to the officers of the state. The transition from Every citizen . . . shall etc. (employing a verb in the active voice) to 'No professor . . . shall be permitted,' in the passive voice, suggests the construction which you doubtless first assumed...
Filing of the big Anaconda issue was significant for more than its size. The low estate of Anaconda stock in the black day of Depression reflected a not unreasonable doubt as to the company's ability to survive. Not only was Anaconda suffering from an unprecedented drop in copper prices; in the final stages of a long expansion program it had piled up bank loans of $70,000,000. During the past few years the company has whittled this figure down to about $57,000,000 but Anaconda's balance sheet is still enough to give a banker...
...record of a particularly diffuse type of warfare, written by a sensitive, philosophical Englishman who had exceptional opportunities to observe it, they found Seven Pillars of Wisdom a rewarding study. In it brisk and tumultuous accounts of battles and raiding parties alternate with dark passages of soul-searching and doubt, with plainly unscientific generalizations of Arab customs and beliefs...
...increased from $720 a year in 1900 to $3,125 in 1903, and he was soon taken into his firm. With his tastes inclining him toward an academic career and a quiet family life, he had little interest in establishing a great fortune, underwent an extraordinary period of doubt, hesitancy, soul-searching, before accepting the offer of a Morgan partnership. The House of Morgan wanted him, his old friend Calvin Coolidge wrote, "not merely because of his talent, for talent was plentiful and easy to buy, but . . . for his character, which was priceless...