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Word: doubtful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just whom Coach Ulen will enter in tomorrow's meet must remain in doubt at least until after this afternoon's practice, for several squad-members are still at large. Sophomore freestyler Lonnie Stowell will compete for the first time this season. He has been out with a cold. All in all, the contest is not expected to draw many fans to the pool balcony except dyed-in-the-wool tank enthusiasts...

Author: By Charles N. Pollak ii, | Title: Varsity Tankmen Meet Greenwood Memorial Swimmers Tomorrow Night | 1/6/1939 | See Source »

...over Czechoslovakia. When without loss of blood he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Man of the Year, 1938 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

...plenty cold in Europe last week (see p. 10), but gaffers who claim that winters were harder when they were boys are quite right-except that the change is too small to be detected except by instruments and statistics in the hands of professional meteorologists. Weather men have no doubt that the world at least for the time being is growing warmer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Warmer World | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

Alcohol and Guns. With bright-eyed, flabby-cheeked Philip Musica dead, there began to be some doubt whether anyone would find the missing $18,000,000 in McKesson & Robbins assets. That Coster's crude drug department and its agencies had masked bootlegging operations during prohibition was generally agreed; that it had later turned from alcohol to bootlegging munitions was indicated by reports 1) that rifles had been received in Spain in cases labeled milk of magnesia; 2) that a McKesson & Robbins official had asked a Bridgeport bank to collect $30,000,000 owed the company for an arms shipment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: My God, Daddy! | 12/26/1938 | See Source »

...That part of my family's country place at Hyde Park on which we live will, without doubt, eventually go to the Federal Government to be maintained for the benefit of the public by the Federal Government. It is, therefore, my thought that funds can be raised for the erection of a separate, modern, fireproof building...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Into History | 12/19/1938 | See Source »

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