Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tailing the ballot during the early returns, Maguire's nomination was in doubt until the last votes had been counted. Maguire is a strong exponent of Plan E and is in favor of closer cooperation between the University and the city government. "If Cambridge were run from Littauer Center, it couldn't be in worse condition," he once stated...
Carr Still in Doubt...
...that remained in Poland last week was aftermath: mopping up, repairs, the sorting of truth from falsehood. One truth reached Manhattan with a famed world traveler and free-lance photographer, Julien Bryan. That it was a truth no one could doubt, for Photographer Bryan had recorded it in grim celluloid and emulsion...
...sharp-eyed survivor notwithstanding, there was considerable doubt at week's end that the attacker could have been the Admiral Scheer. Chief substantiating circumstance was the presence of an airplane. But a cruiser might have launched it. Fishiest point of all was the 25 shots she was said to have fired. One shot from the Admiral Scheer's secondary battery of 5.9-inch guns could have put a hole as big as a room in the Clement; and one from her 11-inchers a hole as big as a house...
...Ford and Chevrolet. Competent, profane, full of studious curiosity, he had handled the complex problems of the Dodge plant-sales, labor, the thousands of trivia that pour over the desk of a big corporation executive-in his unruffled stride. In Walter Chrysler's mind there was no doubt that K. T. Keller had the mental heft to steer a motor giant which in the year just past had sold $516,830,333 worth of automobiles, had given employment to 59,000 workmen...