Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writer also consider the possible increase of the infirmary fee which might be caused by a new University hospital? I doubt if this increase would justify itself to the majority of the students...
John Crowe Ransom said of Moore's first book of sonnets: "It is because Merrill Moore is an inevitable fountain of charming novelties that he has done what I doubt if any other living poet could do; and that is, to publish himself fully, delicately, and beautifully in a book composed entirely of sonnets, or quasi-sonnets." And the same might be said of this, his third book, ten times the length of the first...
...YEAR: WITHOUT A DOUBT CONGRATULATIONS FOR CUTTING HIM DOWN TO HIS SIZE ON COVER...
That this reply was made on Mr. Grew's advice there was little doubt, but its wording came from Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles. Coming on top of Mr. Welles's refusal last fortnight to apologize to Germany for Secretary Ickes' remarks on Adolf Hitler, it looked like step No. 2 in a new U. S. policy of speaking to international bullies in language which they can understand...
...days before retiring as U. S. Attorney General, 68-year-old Homer Stille Cummings, class poet at Yale in 1891, confessed that he had written two volumes of poetry during his six years in office. Said he: "I doubt seriously that they will ever see the light...