Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your readers hereabouts, however, fail to perceive the aptness of your simile in alluding to Mr. Bell's independence. No doubt he is a lawyer who fearlessly does his best for his clients; but how is a "hog on ice" an example of independence...
Sirs: . . . No doubt, the REA is to be lauded for its Thumb child. However, TIME has overlooked another public-spirited organization. . . . Detroit Edison bought the interests of an ill-managed, holding-company-owned public utility company in The Thumb in 1935. . . . In November 1935, 11,000 Thumb farmers were in need of rural electric service: within two years D.E.C. had supplied the needs of approximately half of them. Coop, as a result of its first three years, has extended its services to some 1,500 farmers at current date. It hopes to serve 4,000 to 5,000 when...
...front of the platform for a lot of wisecracking and folksy gesturing until suppressed by Secretary Marvin Mclntyre. When the President's turn came, he frankly listed the hundreds of millions of dollars poured into Kentucky by the New Deal, flatly said: "I have no doubt that Governor Chandler would make a good Senator from Kentucky-but I think he would be the first to acknowledge that, as a very junior member of the Senate, it would take him many, many years to match the national knowledge, the experience and the acknowledged leadership ... of that son of Kentucky...
...only did Dr. Fawcett's pupils rate high er than other high-school youngsters in tests on reasoning ability, but they got the best marks in the State in plane geometry. The authors proudly display in their book the slogan over the doorway to this class : PRIZE THE DOUBT LOW KINDS EXIST WITHOUT. Less enthusiastic was one parent, who complained: "[My daughter] has become too cynical and is given to a great amount of quibbling...
...service organizations having constructive educational programs." But Dr. Gellermann's thesis had not been entirely squelched. Said the arch-conservative New York Herald Tribune: "Has the Legion ever distinguished itself by any intelligent or sustained stand for civil liberties, free speech or the rights of the individual? We doubt it. Not a pressure group? Why, it has been, on occasion, one of the most arrogant and powerful and vindictive of all the pressure groups. . . . If Doctor Professor Legionnaire Gellermann's tirade should lead to a realistic re-examination of the American Legion by its own member ship...