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Word: doubt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When dollar diplomacy and the white man's burden led us to take the far-flung Philippines to our bosom there was considerable doubt whether the Constitution followed the flag. Mr. Dooley was asked what he thought about the problem. After considering a moment the humorist replied that he didn't know about that, but he was sure that the Supreme Court followed the election returns. Mr. Dooley apparently not only had a keen insight into his times but the ability to grasp and aptly phrase that which would have meaning for successive generations. Yesterday's "gold decisions" bear ample...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GOLD DECISIONS | 2/19/1935 | See Source »

...received the drawing from Mr. Benjamin West, who declared it was taken from the life and was presented to him by a gentleman of quality and that he had no doubt but it was by a French painter of noteworthy fame. I remain Respectfully yours Rembrandt Peale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DOCUMENT USED AS EVIDENCE THAT PORTRAIT IS AUTHENTIC | 2/14/1935 | See Source »

Some of the visitors at the Dartmouth Carnival last week-end have no doubt seen the Orozco murals in the university library, and it is only right that the flagrant attack on the academic tradition which they constitute should receive its merited censure. Since at Harvard there are problems enough to hold our attention, it is seldom that an obvious need occurs to take a college like Dartmouth to task. Yet they have committed a cardinal sin for an endowed American university. The indulgence of Dartmouth and of the public is asked if Harvard is used to illustrate by contrast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAILING WALLS | 2/13/1935 | See Source »

...doubt the abysmal ignorance or indifference of the public prints account for a respectable measure of failure of the plan to work out as yet. But when pessimistic commentators of the opposition state that it will be a law in three months, there seems far too little time for a good conservative fight against its bad features. The only hope for a square deal to capital--and protection for labor,--remains in a strong protest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yesterday | 2/13/1935 | See Source »

...proud to give a great retrospective show to the work of George Caleb Bingham (1811-79). Critics fell over themselves with such phrases as "a modern Delacroix," "last of the Renaissance tradition," "rival of David and Ingres." Only cautious bang-haired Royal Cortissoz sounded a note of doubt in the general acclaim for George Caleb Bingham: "There is no distinction of style about his work. He was a mildly competent, mildly interesting practitioner, whose local legend may well be revived as a matter of pious courtesy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: In Missouri | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

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