Word: doubtedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to correspondent Clinton W. Gilbert of the New York Evening Post, one objection to the presidential candidacy of Herbert Clark Hoover has been voiced as follows: "We have never had an engineer in the Presidency and I doubt whether we ought to have an engineer in the Presidency. An engineer is experimental. An engineer always wants to do something...
...World's Series should turn out to be as smelly as one or two of its predecessors, even Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis may begin to doubt whether, after all, the game is worth the scandal...
Reduced to its barest terms, Carlton's resignation means that an A in History and Literature is more to be desired, at least by some people at Harvard, than the time-hallowed major sport "II". There have been others, no doubt, who thought the same, but they have either not been favored with the opportunity so clearly to indicate their choice or they have-found the pressure of public opinion and tradition too strong to overcome...
...fact that in this particular case, a managership is giving way before scholarship is not of great moment. Other extra curricula activities, different from the football managership only in that they are less in the public eye, have, no doubt, suffered the same fate in recent years. The teams, too, have not been immune from the added attraction which the tutorial system, better reading facilities, more capable instructors, or whatnot seem to be lending to what was formerly considered the exclusive preserve of the uncongenial grind...
...nomadic side-light will afford amusement enough to warrant at least a hasty reading. It must be admitted at the outset, nevertheless, that the word, "side-light" has not been misapplied. Then we wonder what a circus would be with out its side-show; enough for some, no doubt, but there would be many more who would clamor for the sight of the freaks, hidden under the smaller tent...