Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel certain that surtaxes will be reduced and have no doubt that the surtax will be brought down to 25 per cent and perhaps less. . . . Nobody can tell definitely how much we can reduce taxes next session until after the June payments are made and the returns are examined." So the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee - so Reed Smoot of Utah...
...become such an obsession that he will frankly suspend his judgment when the evidence is, insufficient or conflicting. This is intellectual honesty, and is as necessary for religious as for scientific doctrines. When a truth is once accepted by such a method, it is no longer subject to doubt. Belief is then firmly grounded. Is religion able to stand this test? If so, Dr. Young's fears are groundless. If not, it doesn't matter. Truth will prevail...
...worst of it, no doubt, is the publicity involved. To the average person, this might not mean much, but to a moving-picture actress, already much in the public eye, it must be particularly distasteful. Of course, we may be thankful that the plot was discovered before any damage was done?except the publicity. But even so, there is danger that the thing will become an epidemic. That is, enterprising press agents, now that the jewel-theft scheme has pretty well worn out, may try to fake kidnapping plots and in that way get their employers' names in the paper...
...purposes until they assume their true proportions in a wider horizon. We can try to think how they would be regarded by a Being infinite in knowledge, in love and in sympathy with all sentient creatures that now are, or hereafter will be, living upon the earth. No doubt we shall still be in error, because we are finite, severely limited in mind and heart, but the nearest approach we can make to the pure white light of truth is to raise our thoughts as closely as we are able to those of the Infinite and Eternal
...difficulty of defining the purpose of an institution may arise either from doubt as to its having any purpose, or from doubt as to which of its many purposes is of paramount importance. The difficulty of finding any satisfactory formula for the value of a college education is due to the latter rather than to the former of these doubts. One does not need in these days to argue that it is a good thing to go to college. The average American youth and his average parents have come to feel that college is an indispensable part of the preparation...