Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lest his constituents doubt the sincerity of this statement, wily Manuel Quezon took another way of expressing his change of tactics. A firm rule of Filipino etiquet is that when a superior places a cigaret between his lips, a subordinate must quickly strike a match to light it for him. President Quezon is accustomed to having half a dozen of his Cabinet members pop up on their feet every time he takes out his cigaret case. Last winter when he wanted to take a military aide to the U. S. with him, he invited a group of West Point-trained...
...nomination was confirmed neither press nor politicians made a serious issue of the Klan. As twelve years ago there had been good political reasons for his making Klan connections, so there had long since been equally good reasons for severing them, and no one had the slightest doubt that his feeling for the Klan was even deader than the Klan itself. Last week, however, after all its political importance had passed, the question of Hugo Black and the Klan still seemed hot enough to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and the North American Newspaper Alliance for them to start a series...
Says tennis' modest No. 2: "For three years Tilden has been saying that I am the best amateur. It is the only time I have known him to be wrong." With Tilden's judgment still in doubt, von Cramm and his 22-year-old doubles partner, Henner Henkel, prepared for Forest Hills last fortnight at Chestnut Hill (Mass.), where they met Budge & Mako in the final of the U. S. doubles championship, neatly reversed the two defeats they suffered earlier in the season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final...
...Great Depression of 1929 caused men to doubt the merit of all Andrew Mellon's fiscal works and most of all his tax policy in which the reduction of high surtaxes on big incomes was a prime tenet. To the Mellon mind taxation was simply a device for raising revenue. As a businessman he knew it unwise to charge more than the traffic would bear and it was his theory that high surtaxes reduce revenue by driving capital to take refuge in tax-exempt bonds and other devices for avoiding taxes...
...affected had both ears affected. In this cup-eared family the earmark skipped no generation. Those who had the defect had a certain number of similar children. But those who escaped, in no case passed on the gene to children, grandchildren. So Dr. Potter concluded "There can be no doubt that the peculiar ears of this family depend upon a single dominant gene. . . . Our patient may expect to transmit ears which are abnormally formed to approximately one-half of her children. Her brothers and sisters who have similar ears will do likewise. Those who have normal ears will have children...