Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...account of his discovering the source of the Orinoco River (TIME, Aug. 10). But for a long time he had wanted to speak out about men, institutions and conditions in Latin America which have vexed him. His book turned from a travelog into a philippic. Lest readers doubt his competence to criticize he took care to detail that he has spent but 30 months of the past 31 years outside of South America. For 25 years he was physician & surgeon to mines, railways, sugar and rubber estates in various countries. During vacations he explored. For the past rive years exploring...
...after reading the heart-rending story of "Death on Porcupine River" (TIME Feb 29). The picture of Albert Johnson shows a kindly face. Without the slightest doubt, in the beginning, he thought only of the wretched suffering animals caught in the cruel traps...
...Commerce Department's newly formed Aeronautics Branch. In that capacity he issued to Mr. MacCracken Pilot's License No. 1 after Orville Weight had modestly declined it because he no longer flew. Col. Young received in turn No. 2. When Assistant Secretary MacCracken resigned in 1929 there was no doubt in anyone's mind as to who knew most about _his job. Pilot Young was promptly appointed...
There is no doubt that military training fosters virtues, sadly lacking today, perhaps even in some college editors, such as a healthy respect for, but not a slavish submission to properly constituted authority...
...described the Cero-Gallo murder case as an example of a murderer escaping through a technicality in the law. Gallo, who was acquitted on the perjured testimony of Philomena Romano, his sweetheart, cannot be tried for his life again under the United States law although there is now little doubt of his implication in the crime. Cero Gangi, apparently Gallo's tool in the murder of Fantasia, is now awaiting his second trial, the prosecution failing to obtain a conviction despite the testimony of an eye witness who swore that he never took his eye off the accused man from...