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Word: doubters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early this year a doubter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shcmks's Slip | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...Dissenters. By no means all scientists supported the May bill. Some, fed up with Army bureaucracy, asked in vain for further hearings on the bill. Some thought that the current concepts of control ignored the real nature of pure research. Said one such doubter: "A lot of nuclear research is done with a brain, a pencil and a piece of paper. How can you control that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMAMENTS: Better than Dynamite? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

...Honest, persuasive George Marshall, who enjoys as much Congressional confidence as any other U.S. military figure, apparently made a good job of it. After a two-hour secret session, members of the Senate and House Military Affairs Committees told newsmen that many a doubter of the Army's program was now a convert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Fathers Next | 2/22/1943 | See Source »

...Doubter. In Lambertville, N.J., nervous Motorist Batista Linco explained he had been driving on 224 consecutive learner's permits over the past 25 years because he had flunked his first driver's test, had been unsure of himself ever since, doubted he could learn all the rules...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 12, 1942 | 10/12/1942 | See Source »

...educated and dignified doubter apply the rules he learned as a child playing the most elementary team game: for any progress peacetime or otherwise, confidence must be with the captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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