Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be no doubt that the authors are profound classical scholars, for on the very first page one finds the inspiring quotation "Omnibus ad ques hae litterae pervenerint Saintem." That they are cultured they prove by the quotations from Thomas Arnold, Bacon, Kant, and Moutaigue. A cultured shudder gently ripples down their sensitive spines as they forsee the end of the liberal arts tradition in the old school. We can almost see a wistful fear dropping upon the already damp paper as they plaintively ask, "Have you considered what would be thought by the other great teachers...
...President's newspaper conference method, the absence of what we call 'trained seals,' his geniality, his use of first names, his numerous small private hospitalities to the Press-all these undoubtedly have won him a regard among the reporters which, I do not for a moment doubt, impels many of them to give him and his plans the best of it when there is a best that can be given without violence to the facts...
...there remained any doubt of Dean Donham's wish to foster a sympathetic attitude between government and business, he dispelled it with his comment on the new course: "It is impossible to extemporize a first-class Civil Service. Twice in 18 years ... we have struggled with social catastrophes made more difficult by the shifting requirements of men perforce hastily gathered together, without training for the purpose, overwhelmed, overworked, and often made arrogant by the magnitude of jobs undertaken all at once. Too frequently these men are incompetent to handle the problems they face; yet their decisions constantly upset business...
...World Proletariat), was indirectly the cause of turning out James Ramsay MacDonald's first Labor Cabinet when British Conservatives published the notorious "Zinoviev Letter" (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). As Kamenev (born Rosenfeld) and Zinoviev (born Apfelbaum) stood in the dock before Ulrich last week, no Bolshevik could doubt but that a Red pigmy was judging two Red giants...
...days later Chemical got a new president-the tenth in its 112 years. First Vice President Frank K. Houston was upped one notch, and Mr. Johnston became chairman. But there was no doubt in anyone's mind that Percy Johnston was still Old Bullion's boss...