Word: doubter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week as hundreds of the nation's scientists journeyed home from the midwinter convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, physicists were excited and disturbed because doubt had been cast on the constancy of m. The doubter was Professor George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey of Washington University (St. Louis). In a specially arranged speech after the close of the meeting, he urged that m be considered a variable, offered experiments to back up his view...
Most prominent doubter of Bardstown's favorite story was the late Young E. Allison of Louisville's historical society, the Filson Club. Historian Allison's points: 1) Louis Philippe was notoriously stingy; it is doubtful whether he would so generously remember Bishop Flaget who presented a purse of other people's money. 2) Bishop Flaget called on Louis Philippe in France between 1835 and 1839, was received coldly. 3) The Congressmen who introduced the tariff-exemption bills may unwittingly have been quoting rumor; besides a report of the Congressmen's speeches there are no governmental...
Other X supporters: Dr. John Jackson of Greenwich (England) Observatory. who at first was a doubter; Dr. John Anthony Miller of Sproul Observatory, Swarthmore College...