Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...prowled about a London shop. Its side brushed softly against a small silver statue of Cragadour, Lord Astor's favorite for the Epsom Derby. The statue trembled, fell. Next day, all England heard of the incident. The next night the statue was stolen. Throughout England filtered a whispered nervous doubt...
...optimist and states in strong and, I do not doubt, sincere words her belief that war will disappear. ... I do not share that optimism nor do I think that a philosophic view of the world would regard war as absurd, but most people who have known it regard it with horror...
...doubt Mr. Long himself would not be unwilling to change his opinion of Harvard undergraduates were he to listen "to their comments on the CRIMSON article." They do not "dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books," but rather as the initial move in an attempt to clear away the "War Posters" from the walls of Widener...
...Harvard aggregation should do better this afternoon, back in its own bailiwick, than it did last week on Worcester soil, but the struggle is sure to be keenly contested even if the Harvard pitching staff is able to seem the Holy Cross slugging, and about this there is some doubt...
That the murals are down-right had art and in very poor taste, I do not think there is much doubt. The artists I know of (I am the son of one of the species, and live in the atmosphere) don't even take such work seriously; they look at it, I should say as simply Babbit stuff (which, unfortunately at times will get into institutions of higher learning...