Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Valera's success made things easy for Ulster's Prime Minister Lord Craigavon. who had just dissolved Ulster's Parliament and called a general election for February 9. announcing, "I feel it necessary to put the position of Ulster beyond doubt." Since Ulster elections are fought on religious rather than political lines and Ulster is two-thirds Protestant, one-third Catholic, the result of an election when Mr. de Valera is clamoring for a united Ireland is almost a foregone conclusion: In rebuffing de Valera's proposal, Ulster would return to office for another term Viscount...
...think few . . . can doubt that the learned professions suffer because they have failed to recruit from all economic levels of society...
...striking aspect of the agreement is not that it has been reached, but that throughout the negotiations a maximum of courtesy and respect has prevailed on both sides. Not once did the University treat the union leaders with hostility; not once did the speakers in Cypress Hall cast doubt on the honesty or sincerity of the University. In the absolute harmony between employer and employee is proof that Harvard has once again adapted itself to changing times, and once again set an example for institutions of its kind...
...most of which the Goodman band had recorded. Also played was the celebrated set piece Sing, Sing, Sing, notable for demoniac Gfene Krupa's imperious drum beat and Teddy Wilson's rippling piano. But the event of the evening was the "jam session," effacingly noted as "no doubt the greatest contradiction a swing program could offer," but in effect a blaring success. Amiable Mr. Goodman seated himself in his reed section, his professional spectacles gleaming, and Count Basic began thumping a blues on the piano. For two or three choruses it looked as though the boys were...
...Wolfe dedicated his Of Time and the River to Scribner's Editor Maxwell Perkins who launched him on his career. The dedication called "Max" Perkins "a great editor and a brave and honest man, who stuck to the author of this book through times of bitter hopelessness and doubt and would not let him give way to his own despair," included a hope that the work was worthy of the devotion of "a dauntless and unshaken friend," and closed with a confession that the book would never have been written without it. Last week Thomas Wolfe, announcing that...