Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt, youthful collector of nautical Americana, now ardent philatelist, will no doubt receive the support of the stamp-collecting public (est. 100,000 of voting age) should he secure the Democratic nomination for President...
...them Premier Laval took the electoral reform bill (containing not only women's suffrage but broad electoral reform). In the Chamber it had passed by a vote of 278 to 0; but due to the absence of Left Wing Deputies, there was doubt of a legal quorum. Nevertheless Premier Laval thought the Senators might as well talk about the bill, offered February 19 as the date on which talk should begin...
...young Dr. Kenneth T. Bainbridge stood in the gallery of a theatre and threw handfuls of lemons, oranges and grapefruit at the stage, he would no doubt be ejected by the police. But if there existed no scales on which to weigh lemons, oranges and grapefruit, the police would doubtless let him throw to his heart's content. Thrown with equal force, the lemons would hit players, the oranges would land in the orchestra pit, the grapefruit on the heads of $5.50 seat-holders. Then Dr. Bainbridge could measure the distance between a grapefruit-splashed spectator and an orange-struck...
...changes adopted by the National Football Rules Committee yesterday will have to be reserved for next autumn when the new rules are tried out in actual play. It is fairly safe, however, to predict the success of some of them, while others will have to be viewed with considerable doubt. There is little question but that the rules requiring padded equipment, liberalizing the use of substitutes, and preventing the use of a wedge on the kick-off will all meet with approval and have a beneficial effect. They all concern mere technicalities of play...
...amount of auditable fact. But Mr. Giannini did not expect his retirement to be as complete as it was any more than King Lear expected to be neglected after he had given his kingdom to his two elder daughters. In Mr. Giannini's attempted comeback there is with out doubt a great deal of personal pride. He has, however, been shrewd enough to cover this. The fight began when a group of stockholders united to oust Mr. Walker. The Founder said he would join them if he were sure they wanted him. His entire attitude has been that...