Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what has become of the football rallies? I actually discovered a Senior the other way who didn't know what the term signified! No doubt the rallies have been put aside as expressions of kiddish emotionalism unworthy of college men. But without some kind of real, honest-to-God enthusiasm directly instilled into the men on the team, we have no right to expect them to defeat teams whose members feel solid support behind them...
...coming to its conclusion, the committee found that, "as to the general spirit of earnestness in work, there seems to be little doubt. The tendency toward liberal thought is a thing no longer to be apprehended by the parents of students attending Harvard...
...Tarbell, who wrote before the great philanthropies had mellowed public sentiment and mergers had become respectable. These critics were dominated by the competitive ideal which Rockefeller perceived at the outset as false and inapplicable to the exigencies of the business situation and which we have more recently come to doubt as sound public policy. Valid criticism of Rockefeller should be based upon his lust for profits. The Standard Oil showed as little consideration to its customers as it did to its competitors. It is small consolation to them to know that Rockefeller was more honest in not watering his stock...
...vote. Meantime throughout the length & breadth of the land, some 40,000,000 citizens were proceeding in quiet, orderly fashion to cast their ballots in the memorable Depression election of 1932. That most of them were marking "Roosevelt" instead of "Hoover" the former had at no time any doubt, but it is not likely that he or his most sanguine supporter had any idea of the completeness with which the country was swinging. Headquarters at the Biltmore that night were more businesslike than might have been expected. The outer rooms were festive to the point of turbulence, but Franklin Delano...
Returns from New York State indicated that beyond any doubt this state has gone Democratic for the first time since Wilson carried it in 1912. According to the Literary Digest and other election prognosticators, Hoover cannot hope to win without her 45 electoral votes. This was in accord with estimates by Tammany Hall, the New York Times...