Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wear" columns in Vanity Fair and theatre programs. Having missed being the heralds of a new age, Cholly Knickerbocker and Beaunash will probably commit suicide. It may soon become the fashion for engaged Columbia couples to exchange compacts at Christmas, perfectly assured that their presents will satisfy; and, beyond doubt, everyone will be rejoiced to see some saint in the compacts which haberdashers have always had on display along with perfume sprays and manicure sets...
...report did not read like the usual reports on Prohibition? whether for or against?for its conclusions were fully weighed in the readers' presence. It lacked the stamp of propaganda. There was no doubt that it was prepared in a scientific effort to answer the questions: "Has Prohibition been a success or a failure? Is it going to succeed or fail...
...authorities of the English Department. Although still a young man, he has already pursued scholarship to the point of pedantry, and shows so great an enthusiasm for the mechanics of literature,--bibliographies, card catalogs, and philological dictionaries,--that he seems to have lost any love for literature itself. Doubt- less a valuable aid to graduate students in their highly technical researches, Dr. Nagoun possesses none of the qualities necessary for a teacher of undergraduates. To an undergraduate he seems no better fitted to be a teacher of English literature than is a genealogist to be an historian...
Production rate in the basic industries during July was 2% over June and 20% over July, 1924, and there is little doubt that August has maintained this favorable showing. While crop production generally has fallen off, agricultural prices are up considerably, and rural prosperity in most parts of the country seems assured. Freight traffic in the railroads is both heavy and profitable. Lastly, retail sales have held up unusually well over the summer...
...President-elect Mason's acumen and administrative gifts there is no doubt. The large affairs* of Chicago university are safe in the hands of a man who has had high marks, not only in the pedagogical engineering of Wisconsin but also in handling men and moneys as a member of the National Re-search Council. Wondering about his personality, Chicago learned: that he likes a joke and tells a good one; that he is amiable as well as earnest, democratic as well as exacting; that he is something of a sportsman, a speedy winner of affections, an unselfish devotee...