Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement that S. H. Kinney, stroke of the Navy plebes, had sprained his back and would not be able to row Saturday removed beyond all doubt the only remaining threat to Harvey Love's powerful sweepers, G. A. Lucien was moved up from the number 6 position to fill Kinney's place...
...have a doubt concerning the authenticity of this picture for this reason: if you will closely scrutinize the photograph in question, especially the insignia on the gentleman's cap, you will discover what appears to be the hammer and sickle of the Communists...
...doubt of Mr. Ford's post-visit attitude toward the New Deal remained, he would have removed it by his subsequent performances in New York. This, too, was a rare occasion for him. Not since 1932, when he boomed Herbert Hoover for reelection, had Henry Ford delivered a formal address, and he was in New York to address the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Beforehand, he again yielded to clamorous newsmen and received them in a private dining room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel...
...Norton, who last autumn got 217 of her colleagues to sign a petition to discharge the bill from the Rules Committee, would be able to do so again. Last week her hopes of doing so were raised by a note from Franklin Roosevelt. Excerpt: "I have no personal doubt that a large majority of the membership of the House believes that the House as a whole should pass its judgment on such legislation...
...doubt the aptness of your phrase "almost unprecedented" for Commander Bower's boxed ear at the hand of Mr. Shinwell in the House of Commons (TIME, April 18). On the contrary, I think you will find such conduct backed by several centuries of stanchest British precedent...