Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Molly Brown Carran, who was present, gazing up through thick-lensed eyeglasses at her prodigious pupil. He recalled Iowa's apples, rabbits, nuts, fishing. He returned again to the Old Swimming Hole: "As an engineer I could devise improvements for that swimming hole," he said. "But I doubt if the decrease in mothers' grief at the homecoming of muddy boys would compensate the inherent joys of getting muddy...
...North Dakota lately voted within 5,000 of repealing its longtime State enforcement law.) North Dakota's boyish Senator Gerald P. Nye was there and, though the Nominee declined to commit himself to an extra session of Congress for Farm Relief, Senator Nye announced: "I was in doubt before Hoover's acceptance speech, but he has talked frankly. I find it my duty to support...
...Outside of his recommendations for changes in our Prohibition enactments and his comments thereon, I regard Gov. Smith's acceptance speech as a convincing and able deliverance. That he will give us an effective enforcement of Prohibition as long as it is the law no one can justly doubt, after noting his declaration in that respect. I oppose and shall continue to oppose the changes he has suggested in the case of Prohibition, but I shall not permit my devotion to that great reform to blind me to the fact that other questions are calling imperatively for solution...
...seemed possible that the "record of this conversation'' which Journalist Viereck had preserved had not been preserved quite perfectly. Its major facts were not hard to believe, though it was no doubt a revelation to many scrupulous Ford owners that they were riding about in cars made by a reincarnationist. It was interesting to remember that another, though less famed, meteoric U. S. millionaire, Oil-tycoon Edgar B. Davis, believes in reincarnation. How instructive it would be, many persons reflected, if other tycoons could be persuaded or compelled to give out accurately and truthfully their religious theories...
...Driven to frenzy by the futility of outland interpretation I at last took up the work of their defense"-thus Mrs. Chapman on behalf of the Southern Mountaineers; and Outlander Mackaye is no doubt one of those who drove her to it. Certainly two interpretations could not differ more radically-Maristan Chapman's poignant novel of a reticent folk moving slowly to the rhythm of deep passions; and Percy Mackaye's lusty plays of primitive types with quick emotion and prompt voluble speech...