Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal front, advising President Roosevelt to alter or reverse his fiscal, monetary, tax, labor, industrial, relief, agricultural, foreign trade and recovery policies. "I firmly believe" wrote he, "that, if steps were taken tomorrow to put the monetary and borrowing policy of the Federal Government beyond the shadow of doubt, this depression would be relegated to the limbo of forgotten things in three months' time...
...with the structure of government. What, then, is the essential, pervasive, irreducible characteristic in this thing we call "politics"--the unifying concept? Mr. Brane says it is social control--the control of power exercised by man over man. Few will quarrel with this choice in general, although some doubt whether "power" adequately expresses the "political" relations of men, and all will readily admit that since it is a phenomenon perceptible not in itself but only in cause and effect, the "science" must be constructed along somewhat vague and unstable lines. The same, of course, applies to electricity in the physical...
...Playgoer doesn't know yet whether Miss Harding's fruity lines are intended as a satire on Bloomsbury romanticism, or whether the authoress thought she was writing some pretty telling stuff. He is inclined to give Suburbia the benefit of the doubt. It must be a Message...
...tried to cast doubt over Hauptmann's complicity in the crime on the ground that $31,420 of the ransom money has never been officially accounted...
...other hand, the tutors were emphatic and unanimous in reporting the excellent results achieved with the better students. This truth, indeed, is established beyond any possibility of doubt. The increase in the number of students who have taken their degrees with honors since the tutorial system was introduced is evidence enough...