Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just as close a regulation; we must go so far that "it may be necessary to have compulsory control of marketing, licensing of plowed land, and base and surplus quotas for every farmer for every product for each month in the year." No one possessed of any foresight could doubt that this would be the eventual end of the Roosevelt programme; but it is highly significant that it has been officially promulgated by one of the President's closest advisers...
...good Russian authors, writes with a reverent simplicity which only a natural dignity can carry off, and in which simple truths occasionally seem startling. He writes of illness as "in reality an unconsummated death, a crazy journey into certain realms of beyond, that never leaves us unscathed." Of doubt: "Perhaps everything was really nonsense, but that nonsense was my life...
...Frederick March prove conclusively in "Good Dame" that the director, scenario writer, and author of a movie can be quite insignificant. Without a good story the, two speak poor lines so that one thinks that one is hearing the best lines from the best play of Shakespeare. No doubt it is quite difficult to believe that two simple souls can be quite perfect in the cinema. You think that these two hams are receiving too much credit, that no actor or actress from Hollywood could achieve so much fame legitimately. My opinion would blast all previous ones of the superiority...
...Scholastic Aptitude Test will shortly be required of all applicants for admission to the College, is the first outward sign that Harvard's entrance requirements are up for revision. This particular test, although still in the experimental stage, has been widely adopted by other colleges. In particular cases, no doubt, it is sometimes erratic; but over a wide field, it has proved surprisingly accurate in forecasting students' college records...
Hanover, N.H., Feb. 14--Under the able guidance of its new coach, Herb Gill, the Dartmouth hockey team has developed into a fast, hard-checking, and high-scoring sextet which is without doubt one of the best amateur clubs in the country. The team promises to remind Dartmouth hockey followers of the time when Myles Lane captained the aggregation which made Dartmouth hockey history back in 1927. The improvement comes at a particularly welcome time, for since those days hockey in Hanover has been definitely on the down grade...