Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...definite assurance that Stanley Reed's appointment to the Supreme Court will not prevent his sitting upon the finals of the Ames Competition at the Law School answers, but does not discredit the Crimson's earlier expression of doubt on this subject. The questions posed yesterday have reaped the indignant and confident rebuttal printed elsewhere. That confidence is blind to the fact that supreme court appointments are extremely touchy matters. Justices, whether potential or confirmed, are of necessity super-shy with regard to any and all public appearances that might be used in any way as the basis...
Last week as hundreds of the nation's scientists journeyed home from the midwinter convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, physicists were excited and disturbed because doubt had been cast on the constancy of m. The doubter was Professor George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey of Washington University (St. Louis). In a specially arranged speech after the close of the meeting, he urged that m be considered a variable, offered experiments to back up his view...
...fine white hair. His obvious and arrogant courage has the abstract indestructibility of a triangle. He thinks of himself as in the "centre line" of Usonian independence that runs through Thoreau and Whitman. Whether or not that line is still central in U. S. culture, there can be little doubt that Frank Lloyd Wright is their worthy peer...
...tries to salvage something from the torrent of destruction, but this time she falls and ends in madness. No one wins anything, in fact, except that the Tommies subdue Dublin, and march down the street singing "There's a silver lining." This Mr. O'Casey seems disposed to doubt...
...banquet hall in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel by way of an anteroom full of books, charts, photographs, machines-all concerned with the improvement of voice technique; sat down to eat with 500 members of the earnestly convening National Association of Speech Teachers; then said to them: "I doubt whether more than ten persons can get together and do much in advancing ideas or thought. ... I wonder if the teachers of speech might not be more helpful to humanity if they taught silence...