Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they are likely to find in contemporary literature. "Riding the Mustang Trail," the narrative of a four-hundred-mile "trail drive" of a large herd of wild mustangs from the Mescalero country of New Mexico to a shipping point in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, is a saga proving beyond all doubt that there still is a West, in the realest sense of the term, that it is still full of pitfalls, even to its most hardened inhabitants, and that for the uninitiated it is as full of adventure and excitement as ever...
Municipal government is notoriously bad but I doubt very much that even our Philadelphia authorities ever permitted Everett Shinn and ''a one-eyed Civil War veteran" to spend a night ''sitting on the 3-ft. hat brim of the 37-ft. statue of William Penn" atop our monstrous City Hall, as stated in your issue of March...
...Ticket. Fortnight ago Senator Long told a newshawk in Washington: "There positively will be a Share-the-Wealth ticket in the field in the 1936 campaign. No doubt about that. That ticket will be headed by a man who won't go back on his word. He will be a man who is honorable enough to commit suicide if we win and he doesn't make good on his promises...
...career. But Convict Hammond has lived to tell a much lengthier, triumphantly anticlimactic tale. Last week he celebrated his Both birthday by publishing his autobiography. Oldster Hammond's report on his career, like Youngster Hammond's reports on mining properties, was clear, factual, illuminating, left no doubt of the author's opinion...
Theoretical attacks on the progressive method of education must collapse in face of such overwhelming statistical evidence. There is still room for doubt in individual cases. There is still room for doubt in application to other fields of education but the high school. One cannot use clay models in college. But the report of the Institute of School Experimentation is conclusive proof that progressive education is on the right track. Let us hope that nostalgia won't prevent its advance...