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Word: doubtedly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Campus heartily approves this action of the Council. Here is a field in which we can feel perfectly at home and at an advantage over most institutions; there is no doubt that a very fine group can be gathered at the College, one which will offer stiff competition to any college team in the country. C.C.N.Y. has long been silently revered for the quality of its scholarship; it now has the opportunity to give expression to that admiration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: --And Brain Tests | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

...little indeed to offer. The authors are frank enough to make no pretense at plot, and the advertisements for the play stress the chills and laughs, not the tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...

Author: By J. H. S., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 3/20/1929 | See Source »

...stroke of ill-luck, the one really pressing matter that came before the new Cabinet as soon as it was formed was a matter in the province of the one new Cabinet member who had not reached Washington?the new Secretary of State, Colonel Stimson. There was little doubt that the leaders of the Mexican revolt (see p. 27) timed their uprising in order to catch the new administration off its guard in hope that its support of the existent regime in Mexico would be weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Mexican Policy | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...simulative of thought," most Harvard men will find the book interesting. To erudite readers who search their pages for inaccuracies Professor Moore sounds a warning that "in a work of such wide scope the critical reader will often discover in particulars of fact or of interpretation occasion for doubt or dissent." Bertrand Russell in his review of the book in the New York Nation for January 23 of this year, has drawn up a list of such errors with undue irony, and with fine disregard of the central idea of the discussion, which after all is not essentially invalidated...

Author: By H. W. Taeusch, | Title: A System of Life | 3/15/1929 | See Source »

With the proper understanding of the inherently smoke-screen quality of the first named reason for the steady growth of "unsatisfactories" in Dean Hanford's report, the necessity for close attention to the second and third reasons comes squarely into its own. No doubt more stringency in the treatment of men who have once failed of promotion would result in an immediate improvement in the appearance of Freshman standing, but by so doing the symptoms of disease are removed. It is the cause of the symptoms that requires earnest searching and thoughtful treatment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WILL-O'-THE-WISP | 3/6/1929 | See Source »

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