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Word: doubtful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committees of their power to discipline men during voyages. While the effect of this self-discipline was generally good, some shipmasters disapproved the principle-they believed it might mean divided authority. The proposal may meet intense opposition within the union, but the leaders favor it and there is little doubt of its passage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Bitter Bon Voyage | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...workers who joined the Revolution [of Socialists in 1918] should be labeled Bolsheviks! ... I give you the Fatherland Front's new slogan: True till death to the Red, White and, Red! . . . The will to freedom of the Austrian people stands like a strong wall. . . . Victory is beyond doubt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Civil War? | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...most intelligent apostles of democracy. Thomas Jefferson democratically visioned an intellectual aristocracy selected for genius and virtue. Andrew Jackson said that all men were born equal. He envied intellectual pre-eminence and preached the doctrine of equal educational privilege for all. Dr. Conant says that many educators doubt the value even of high school for certain types of students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

Germanic unity: "Two of the states bordering Germany alone include a mass of 10,000,000 Germans! [Austria & Czechoslovakia-see map]. . . . About one thing there should be no doubt. Separation from the state sovereignty of the Reich cannot lead to the loss of racial or political rights' . . . Just as England defends her interests the world over, the present day Germany will be able to defend her much more limited interests." "Colonies Demanded." But the big smash of the Chancellor's speech was Hitler's ominous roar that Germany has "no differences with England-except colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Give Us Colonies!! | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

...thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite plunged on underground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Great Fall | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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