Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carry on actively in one or the other sporting events. However, up to the present, the competition has been restricted to House occupants, who have been able to secure equipment and the like from the H.A.A. Men living outside have been unable to participate in this program and without doubt feel keenly about it. As a step towards ameliorating the position of the "out-houser" why not extend the House athletic program so that all undergrads may have a chance to take part in it. Mathew Taback...
Under the new arrangement, the general doubt as to who is ahead in a close match is remedied by the simple expedient of chalking up the points just as they are won on a scoreboard as is done in a basketball game; and also much more stress is laid in the point scoring to aggressive tactics...
Aggrandizer Hitler made no statements last week about being satisfied as to territorial demands. In fact, even Neville Chamberlain was inclined to doubt the Fuhrer's promises. Such countries as Poland and Hungary were not doubting his threats, however. When he arrived back in Berlin, Storm Troop units and loud speakers sang all day a song with the refrain: Today we own Germany, Tomorrow the whole world...
...only be called bungling when Yardlings are rudely jarred out of their sleep of a Monday morning to decide a matter of such weighty proportions--Freshmen have shown their ability to arrive at the one rational answer. And have answered in such a sweeping manner that none can doubt their conviction, that none can ignore their mandate...
...loyalty to the long-buried past, high-aims qualified by too mocking a sense of humour, serenity clouded by petulance and broken by occasional black despairs, playboy charm and theatricality, imagination that overruns itself and tires, extreme generosity, serpent cunning, lion courage, diabolic intuition, and the curse of self-doubt...