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Word: doubting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME is beyond all doubt the correct name for the only newsmagazine in these United States. I nearly fell off my comfortable and well balanced chair (and the whole phrase is meant literally) when I opened up the Nov. 12 issue of TIME this afternoon and found the complete election results, covered in your usual highly interesting style. That was an example of real speed on your part?speed I had not thought probable. TIME certainly makes full use of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Japanese Ears | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Though the appearance of the band leaves no doubt that it is made up of students at Harvard there is no definite feeling among any large group of supporters that it should be otherwise. Vague mutterings about "pants" occurred in the 'Alumini Bulletin' at one time, but for the most part there is still a preference for representation by a familiar uniform rather than by some second hand reminiscence of the circus tent on the rifle team. A tradition of performance precluding criticism, steadily nourished during the past two seasons, should be sufficient to give Harvard men of all ages...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PILGRIM BAND | 11/23/1928 | See Source »

...admire any organized attempt of working men to defend themselves," he stated, "but I doubt if they can accomplish very great results through the organization of labor, even in solving the problems of the working class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Will Durant Finds That Leadership Always Must Come From Great Genius--Popular Movements Fail to Solve Problems | 11/20/1928 | See Source »

...right to the name, the confirmed is no longer the virgin she should be. There was always a new suspicious twist in the affairs of the carpenter, the fishermen, the doctor, the pompous Consul. And Oliver, swashbuckling sailor returned legless from a storm at sea, would no doubt lose his sweetheart to the steady carpenter. But Petra married Oliver in spite of the gossip, and bore five children. Of course the brown-eyed boys might belong to Consul Johnsen, wealthy shipper, and the youngest was no doubt fathered by the lynx-eyed Lawyer-but the Doctor, who fostered this gossip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Small Things | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

...finally cast out by the House of Baden, lest he foil a court intrigue by claiming his rightful heritage. Controversy raged as to the truth of the charge or the likelihood of fraud. But the successive murders of astute criminologist and innocent boy himself left little room for doubt. Meanwhile Caspar, bandied conspicuously from one guardian to another-a double-faced English lord in the pay of the court, a neurotic, lustful woman, a self-righteous bully of a pedagogue-suffered tortures of childish bafflement at the heartless stupidity of his elders. Treacherous death was actually release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Symbol | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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