Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There has been an intercollegiate billiard tournament every year for the past four, and it is Mr. Peterson's belief that this indoor sport is destined to become increasing popular in colleges. "There is no doubt," he wrote in his letter to Harvard, "that the game of billiards has finally taken hold among our higher institutions of learning...
Final titillating moment came last week when the nine modest Justices had to have Capitol police open pathways through the crowded corridors to their offices. If there was any doubt that the Court's decision was to be rendered that day it was dispelled 40 minutes before the Court assembled, when Mrs. Brandeis and Mrs. Butler took seats in the Courtroom. The wives of other Justices followed. But the Administration had already guessed that the decision was to come: Secretaries Morgenthau and Hull had a 1 o'clock luncheon appointment at the White House; Mrs. Morgenthau...
Shadow of Doubt (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) would be a routine program picture were it not for the presence in its cast of Constance Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress...
...underpaid and sacrificing toil of thousands. I'm not sure that North Carolina can afford your magnificence. It's a question of whether the common welfare is to be sacrificed for the opulence of the few. . . . Mr. Duke was lacking in social insight. There can be no doubt that the power he developed is now the rightful property of the people of North and South Carolina and the surrounding States...
...Connor's doubt about the ability of the unemployed, the San Francisco dock strikers, etc. to laugh, is unduly pessimistic. I walked across the Embarcadero in San Francisco last July, while the tear gas guns were popping, and at least 1,250 striking longshoremen were laughing their sides off, apparently because a policeman had fallen off his horse and had shot himself with his own tear...