Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doubtful States. Somewhere a wise owl once hooted: "That which is full of doubt is full of attention." And so it is with nine states where good and bad orators leap from stump to stump, where a casual epigram or a few kissed babies may make or unmake a U. S. Senator...
Oregon. Bert E. Haney, Democrat, v. Frederick Steiwer, Republican, v. Senator Robert N. Stanfield, Independent. The late entrance of Senator Stanfield, the bad boy of Oregon Republicanism, has injected doubt into the campaign and given Democratic Mr. Haney unexpected hope. Oregon is usually counted safe for regular Republicans...
...enclosing a copy of the leading editorial which appears in the October issue of the Michigan Club of New York's Gothamite, which might give a new sidelight to the Harvard-Princeton football question. No doubt there are a great many readers of your paper who would be interested in knowing what Michigan men think of Harvard's most gracious condescension in permitting Princeton, who has only beaten her by a grand total of 70 to 0 in the last two years, to remain on her schedule. Very truly yours, Jeremiah C. Waterman, Princeton...
When the Detroiter goes to New York and seeks diversion at Miss Texas Guinan's playground she will no doubt hall him as a "big dollar man" from the west and plead with the audience to "give this little boy a hand". And they will--the New Yorkers; they love to give hands to big dollar men. But the worm may turn, the native of the Michigan metropolis may show them that Detroit's income tax figures are not her only boast; the census substantiates-their claim of being city folks. And while they are in full possession...
...engaged in contest. This idea is not a new one. The arguments that this ruling would make the game not merely a contest of the brawn and physical skill of the two teams, but also a contest between their brains, seems to hold a certain amount of water. No doubt competitive athletics conducted on this plan would approach more nearly the ideal set by English ideas of sport, in an informal cricket contest where play is interrupted while the sacred rites of the tea table are observed, this plan would work. Unfortunately, the condition of intercollegiate athletics in America today...