Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test it with our preconceived surmise; we guide the image around our minds, contemplating it from all angles; and after much cogitation we conclude that it is a worthy conception, or no. This process, not solely of the classroom, molds our laws in every relationship. There is no doubt but that much mental pabulum has been left shrouded, only to smother, in the minds of men, material that might have had illimitable influence...
...James Montgomery Flagg in the March 21 issue of TIME. Flagg's mug appears as though it had been clawed by a lion, chewed by a bear and laugh-bitten by a hyena, and, if ever kissed, which I doubt, such a favor would be attempted only by a horsefly or a tarantula. This clay model visage looks like a map of No-Man's-Land minus the compassion which even that scene would evoke. An earthquake must have been under way at the time of Flagg's conception . . . and when he first saw daylight a hurricane...
...would the House tax bill raise that amount? There was some doubt about it last week. The Ways & Means Committee estimated that its measure would produce $1,032,400,000 extra cash; reductions in budgeted expenditures for 1933 were figured at another $200,000,000 and minor postal rate increases at $30,500,000. Thus by increasing receipts and cutting expenditures the Treasury would receive a total of $1,262,900,000 more than it now is getting, or $21,900,000 above Budget-balancing requirements...
Paradoxically, gold-rich South Africa has a current budgetary deficit of almost $6.000.000. "But there is no doubt," stoutly declared Finance Minister N. C. Havenga last week, "that, despite diminishing revenues, we have ample resources to keep our currency on the gold standard...
Founder Franklin Simon, no kin to Simple Simon,* has little doubt that his Greenwich venture will succeed. He well remembers his early success in penetrating a residential district. In 1903 he opened a store at Fifth Avenue & 37th Street, next to a Presbyterian church. First year it lost $40,000, second year $28,000. Third year the net profit was $84,000. Success was chiefly due to women's clothes imported from France. Franklin Simon, son of a cigarmaker, had learned the clothing business from Stern Brothers. On buying trips abroad he had been impressed by French styles. Until...