Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have no doubt that there is oil in Antarctica. . . . Who knows but what our future reservoirs of oil and coal . . . lie waiting for us at the bottom of the world...
...confined to this country. The dispatch, for instance, of a numerous and representative British Air Force to France in the immediate future, either for a courtesy visit or for actual participation in any displays or maneuvers which French authorities may be organizing, would not be superfluous. . . ." The was little doubt that the French would be glad to give the British the freedom of their airports...
...Nerves. No longer was there any doubt that Adolf Hitler is determined to have Danzig this summer, preferably without war, but, if necessary, with war. Nor could there be any doubt last week that, as matters now stand, Poland would fight rather than give up the mouth of the Vistula. But the big question was whether Poland's allies, Britain and France, would also go to war. Despite a great Anglo-French outcry of resonant warnings that further aggression would be met "by force", the Nazis believed that when the showdown came Britain and France, as they did last...
...laymen and churchmen over Darwin came a second division between scientists who did not question that evolution was a fact. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection declined in scientific favor. This "eclipse of Darwinism" began in the 19th Century, reached into the 20th. The tendency was to doubt that natural selection-the slow combing out and accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about the mechanism of mutations (sudden, conspicuous changes...
...when he returned everyone commented on what an amazing comeback he had made. His step was firm and vigorous, his color high, eye bright, voice strong. Then he began to fail. His last appearance was on the Wednesday preceding the term's end, and observers expressed doubt then that he would be able to finish...