Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain must be concealed from France, her Wartime ally with all that that implied. Soon the official French attitude was made known by Minister of Marine François Piétri as the French Navy deployed before him in maneuvers at Brest. Said he: "This may cause us to doubt not the friendship of Britain but her pru-dence...
...young West Virginian, whose chief backer is United Mine Workers, whose chief occupation in his State legislature was to get taxes imposed on utilities and chain stores, had no reason to doubt that he would be seated. A Democratic majority of 41 in the Senate assured him of that. His only miscalculation was that he did not expect the Senate to honor him with two days of graduation oratory...
...Some of his precocious revelations made his father & mother conclude that angels were speaking through him, decide to put a stop to "these celestial excursions." But at 57 his anatomical search for man's soul turned Swedenborg once more to supernatural intercourse. This time he had no doubt that the angels and spirits were real. They scattered sweet or disagreeable odors on his body, produced pain, heat, cold. One night some evil spirits got into his scalp, fled at dawn "with a slight hissing sound, like when some little distended vesicle is perforated." For the next 27 years Swedenborg...
...regard this effort on my part as an excellent opportunity to test out in clean-cut fashion the much-mooted question of the constitutionality of the securities acts and believe, with President Roosevelt himself, that there is very serious doubt as to their legality...
Last week the "River of Doubt" surged up from two decades of obscurity. In the new Roosevelt Memorial hall which the Museum will open next autumn, was installed a towering mural painted by William Andrew Mackay. At the top a comely female figure in Grecian dress, representing the river, is pouring a torrent from a vase. In the background is a map with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square...