Word: doubtedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
CRIMSON'S "After the Trial" editorial of October 20, raises a very timid and blushing doubt on the constitutionality of the Smith Act and goes on to question loyalty case procedure. It isn't that it makes much difference whether Communists are jailed or federal workers fired for political beliefs; the big issue is whether everything is done with "procedural safeguards." A yawn from the writer and the piece is done...
...must be satisfied from the evidence, beyond a reason able doubt, that the defendants had an intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of the Government of the United States by force and violence ... as speedily as circumstances would permit it to be achieved...
Worst of all, Burdick thought, was what he called "cultural passivity." In England, he found, there was none of "the rise and fall, the massive brooding anxiety, the creative stabbing of self-doubt, the tortures of ethnic inadequacy that one finds to a marked degree in America and Asia . . ." He doubted very much whether England "could today produce a Shakespeare," but thought America or Asia might...
Alabaster & Antipathy. Never married, he was always in love. When he first met the tiny, cigar-smoking and betrousered George Sand sulking at a soiree, he exclaimed, "What an antipathetic person ... Is it really a woman? I am inclined to doubt it." He claimed she was his mistress for less than a year, but he lived with her and depended on her care and solicitude for almost the rest of his life. When her children finally forced them apart, he was lost without...
...result, says the FORUM, is that "New York is putting millions of dollars into 1,000-pupil elementary schools -many of them in areas where [population analysis] raise serious doubt as to permanency of need. They are all built to last at least 50 years, but they show scarcely a trace of the design revolution of the last two decades...