Word: doubt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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They couldn't agree because they didn't trust each other. In baseball, basketball, and track it has been possible to cooperate. But when they talk of football, when the cold cash of gate receipts is threatened by mutual concessions--then "Some doubt was expressed that the establishment of a formal league would attain all the desired ends...
...Some doubt was expressed, however, that the establishment of a formal league would attain all of the desired ends. Further difficulties arose in contemplating the limitations of a round robin schedule. The net result was a conviction that while a football league has such promising possibilities that it may not be dismissed and must be the subject of further consideration, the time has not yet come when the seven suggested members feel ready to establish a definite and formal organization...
...England, there was an influenza epidemic and no doubt about it. Queen Elizabeth was unable to attend the accession ceremonies of George VI because she had influenza. The new King's sister, Princess Mary, suffered an attack, as did the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester. Last week Queen Mother Mary took sick. Observed the London Times: "Whole households are being affected and considerable dislocation of business is taking place." The Sunday Dispatch: "1,000,000 persons are down with...
...Million (Twentieth Century-Fox J rates as a classic because it preserves for posterity the spectacle of Sonja Henie skating. Ten times (1927 to 1936) world, three times (1928, 1932, 1936) Olympic figure skating champion, Skater Henie is without doubt the best figure skater who ever lived. For her, the 80 standard figures on which figure skating is based are not a test of skill, but the vocabulary of a form of self-expression which for sheer elegance compares to ballet dancing as the ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty...
Another in the long line of musical romances, "Born to Dance" does not equal "Top Hat," yet still must be considered top-notch entertainment. Without a doubt Eleanor Powell's tap dancing features the picture: in addition, she does so well in the role of the little town girl who makes good that she easily outclasses Ginger Rogers. However, James Stewart, the mellow almost inaudible tenor, is no Astaire, and if it weren't for his ingratiating boyish shyness, he would detract from the film. The clever Reginald Gardinev leads a neat touch with a fantastic impersonation of Stokowski...