Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked about the situation in New York with regard to the demands for more power made by Mayor LaGuardia, Mr. Lippmann said, "There is some doubt in my mind as to the constitutionality of the bill La Guardia drew up, but in principle he is perfectly justified in his demands. He must retrench and balance the budget. He can not increase taxes because of the bankers' agreement, and he can not cut salaries because of the special legislation which binds his hands. The balancing of the budget will be impossible unless he is at liberty to change the character...
...Walter Lawrence Bierring, president-elect of the American Medical Association: "I doubt very much that such a thing is possible, and I know of no scientific test which would prove or disprove the findings of the court...
Will Rogers has always seemed to this reviewer as more of a toastmaster than a movie star. In "Mr. Skitch," he noseys around in his usual aimless fashion, scratches the back of his head and exhibits that sheepish Rogers smile. There is no doubt that as the writer of the Washington Letter and the originator of a radio football game in which world celebrities take part he is a talented and versatile man. As such it is interesting to watch him parade his personality in "Mr. Skitch." Despite a few good comedy situations and the presence of Zasu Pitts...
...Roosevelt's program, on the whole, has been one of a temporizing nature. It has not pleased everyone but it has kept anyone from doing anything very violent. If a certain sort of pacification has been Mr. Roosevelt's aim then he has succeeded without any doubt; but if his aim has been to bring about some permanent and supposedly beneficial change in the national government he has failed rather completely and competently...
...nature and origin, with the calm old laws of cause &; effect pushed aside by principles of indeterminance and inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light has remained a faithful standby. Ready to doubt almost everything else, 20th Century scientists have not doubted that light always travels at the same speed through a vacuum. Last week from a sunny California valley came shocking news that "that most fundamental constant" is apparently a variable. Nineteenth Century theorists supposed that light was propagated through space by an all-pervading...