Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quickest ways to accomplish something is to strike while the from is hot. No doubt the Committee for Pan-American Scholarships was aware of that fact. And yet the iron appears to be too hot. The College has the conviction that the drive is not quite straightforward, that it is almost a prank. Whether or not his is the case, the subject is far from inopportune, and for that reason it is regrettable that the timing is poor...
...just what the correct picture is--the view novelists like Hardy actually saw as they wrote. This man has tramped around a lot and taken many colored photographs of out-of-the-way places like Egdon Heath and Stevenson's favorite hang-outs. Pictures like his can no doubt help a lot to clear up the hazy perspective of fellows like...
There was no doubt but that the Government had won. That it had been expected to do so by the financial and commercial interests was significant. On the morning of the general strike, the franc, which had been depressed, bobbed up confidently in foreign exchange. This was followed by a mild boom on the Bourse...
...courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When they turned around, after the signing, to thank him, he had disappeared." The Ballards' prayer: "Let us have every good thing, including money." Backstage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while the Philharmonic's fiddles...
Last week, after a few months of recovery, U. S. business had regained 55% of its Depression II losses. And for the first time since recovery began there appeared visible doubt as to its continuance. Most visible sign was the stockmarket's third successive week of reaction. Although no slump appeared in production indices- power, building, autos continued up- there was distress in two prime measures of public demand for goods; a rise was seasonally normal and money supply was at a peak, but nationwide bank debits and bank clearings tumbled. If such an unbalance-production rising, demand falling...