Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome, excavations begun several years ago by the Rev. Canon E. S. Hughes, vicar of St. Peter's Church, Eastern Hill, were said to have removed all doubt that both Saints, Peter and Paul, died in Rome and were buried near the Basilica of San Sebastiano, sometimes called "Basilica Apostolorum", on the Appian Way. The diggers also claimed to have established that the term "catacomb"-ad or in catacumbas is the form generally used-loosely applied to all underground cemeteries in Rome, really belongs to the swale they were investigating, a likely derivation of the word being the Greek...
...years ago, he has shown the naturalistic bent of his father. When Theodore Roosevelt was on his hunting trips, Kermit was usually along, taking photographs of his father and the fauna. The two were together on the African hunting trip of 1909-10, on the Brazilian "River of Doubt" exploration of 1914. (Between 1911 and 1916 Kermit made essays at engineering and banking in South America. He married Belle Wyatt Willard of Richmond...
...Washington, U. S. income tax officials expressed some doubt as to whether Mr. Smith's $100,000 cheque does or does not constitute "taxable income" upon which he must pay the Treasury's piper, when he returns shortly...
...visited by white men. Seeing her off at the dock, her husband also denied uneasiness: "She is a splendid shot, you know." To guide and protect her there were seven scientists under the command of famed George K. Cherrie, taxidermist and hunter of Roosevelt expeditions to the River of Doubt, Africa, Turkestan. To afford her feminine company and comfort there was Mrs. Ernest Thompson Seton, wife of Naturalist Seton, who exhibited a rifle "that already has to its credit a 1,000-lb. moose, an 800-lb. bear, an antelope shot running at 90 ft. and a wapiti...
...yards, it is true, the result was in doubt. The Harvard eight, rowing gallantly, furiously, sprinted away at the start; then Yale put up the beat and in a moment open water appeared between the shells; at the end of the race this open space was as long as two and a half shells. Both the Yale and Harvard crews broke the upstream record for the course...