Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opponent and "fire" by pulling a trigger-the developed film showed the concentric rings of a conventional target plus the photograph of the "enemy" plane. These pictures were developed and graded like examination papers at school-for correctness of lead was easily checked from the picture. I doubt if such a camera was ever used at the front. The pictures were about 1¾"x 2¼" in size...
...first glance it would seem that the three great New England universities were natural competitors and friendly rivals and that Princeton, geographically and in what one might call cultural background, was in a somewhat different category, not an inferior category, simply a different one. Yet I doubt very much if this is true. Universities, like stars, are influenced by the pull of gravity--in their case the attraction of an overpowering city. Thus Yale, although in Connecticut, tends more and more toward New York, as Princeton does, while Harvard in Massachusetts and Dartmouth in New Hampshire are both...
...doubt if much can be accomplished by adopting a policy under which those men would be selected for promotion who are good tutors and lectures as well as good scholars. Men of this type are rare. On the other hand, I should like to see Harvard adopt a policy under which teaching ability became the main criterion of promotion in all cases. Is it not possible to differentiate between these members of the Faculty whose main job is research and those whose main job is lecturing and tutoring? Could not promotion in the first group be made to depend...
...long as they were in College, but undergraduate interest in it has grown less and less every year until today few but the dowagers of Brattle Street wander upstairs to look at its exhibitions. Who directs it, and why, remains to most a profound mystery, and it would no doubt have passed out of the control of undergraduates long since had not the trustees resisted such a change...
...Federal budget balanced with the aid of Prohibition repeal. "But I doubt if repeal would produce more than one-quarter of the stimulus to business which its advocates have asserted it would...