Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus the short-term, immediate result of last week's polling was never in doubt but the Belgians, essentially a long-term folk, palpitated with eagerness to see if Rexism could win enough votes to make it a coming party. At the election of last May the Rexists, offering candidates for the first time, won 11.4% of the popular vote and 21 of the 202 seats in the Belgian Chamber. In Brussels, the district contested last week, they won last May 55,500 ballots out of a total of 340,000. This spring it has been Degrelle...
...received two more jolts, from Harvard. Its vice president, John Raymond Walsh, and the secretary of its Harvard unit, Alan Richardson Sweezy, were informed that when their contracts expire in June, both will receive "two-year concluding contracts" instead of three-year renewals. In union language there was no doubt that Unionists Walsh and Sweezy, like Unionist Davis, were being fired. Harvard hastened to issue a statement explaining that the "cases present no unusual features; decisions . . . have been made solely on grounds of teaching capacity and scholarly ability." Skeptical friends of Instructors Walsh and Sweezy thought differently. Walsh, a baldish...
...well known for his work" in the field of birth control he was. But oddly enough, he would find neither birth control nor Childes, largely, perhaps, because the famous doctor isn't in Who's Who; in fact he isn't at all. There is certainly no doubt but that their thirst for knowledge had eclipsed anything else...
...Sweezy in the Economics Department, and in arriving at the decision that the terms of the two men were not brought to a close because of prejudice or bias on the part of the University, the Student Council has put a stop to what ever shred of doubt might still remain in the public mind. The council's action shows clear beyond cavil that academic freedom has not been violated, and that the men have been cut off because of the general conditions of promotion that prevail with in the College. So far as Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy...
Following the publication of President Conant's statement last night, the Temporary Student Committee on Instruction in the Social Sciences issued the following statement, which clings to the doubt previously expressed as to the weight in the President's opinion of the ability of Drs. Walsh and Sweezy...