Word: doubtfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bursts of data and even voice transmissions-probably from a tape recorder. Finally there was a dramatic change in the transmissions and an enormous increase in power. "The whole exercise-the time of the launching, the content of the signals and the test of the voice transmitter-leaves no doubt whatsoever that this was a probe intended to come back," Lovell insisted...
Double Slap. The triumphant flight of Zond 5 and the test of its voice-communications system left little doubt that the Russians are racing to send a manned flight around the moon ahead of the U.S. which now plans to fly three astronauts on a lunar mission in December. The number of Russian space launchings announced this year-36 to only 18 for the U.S.-adds weight to the theory that the Soviets are working overtime on their space program...
There can be no doubt that the foremost purpose of the honorary degree is theatrical. The University goes to elaborate lengths to keep secret the names of the winners. William Pinkerton, head of the News Office, releases the names of the recipients to the president and photographic chairman of the Crimson at 5 p.m. the day before Commencement, telling them to prepare the Crimson extra without telling anyone else who won. If the secret ever gets out, Pinkerton always says, he will stop informing the Crimson in advance...
...sources of the new mood that I have tried to describe are manifold and complex, but there can be no doubt that the historians who will chronicle this movement will give a preeminent place to the inspiration that Dr. King provided...
Rosenthal and Jacobson politely refrain from moralizing, suggesting only that "teachers' expectations of their pupils' performance may serve as self-fulfilling prophecies." But the findings raise some fundamental questions about teacher training. They also cast doubt on the wisdom of assigning children to classes according to presumed ability, which may only mire the lowest groups into self-confining ruts. If children tend to become the kind of students their teachers expect them to be, the obvious need is to raise the teachers' sights. Or, as Eliza Doolittle says in Shaw's Pygmalion, "The difference between...