Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angeles property owners at once engaged Geologist Robert Thomas Hill of the University of California, onetime (1889-1904) member of the U. S. Geological Survey, to examine the terrestrial underpinning of Los Angeles and make an announcement "to the world." There was little doubt but what this report would mitigate, if not wholly crush, the Willis doctrine. In seismology, as in medicine, so many factors must be surmised that from the few known facts, paid experts may arrive honorably as often as willfully at different conclusions...
...smelling footprints in the grass. What would have been the small basset hound's reaction had the greatest U. S. dog show been carefully described to him, had some crass soothsayer delineated for his amazement an event like many in which he will, there can be no doubt, participate...
This argument and others that were advanced, to the effect that if a high standard of excellence be demanded from minor sport athletes as well as from participants in major sports, recognition should be equal in all cases, leave it in doubt as to whether the athletic letter is to be regarded more appropriately as a reward of excellence or as a sort of bribe held out to tempt the hesitating into action. Obviously if it serves in the first capacity it is effective in the second also, but obviously the first is the fundamental one for unless the letter...
...Cohens and Kellys in Paris. If there is anything inherently comic about Irish individuals and Hebrew individuals when placed in boisterous juxtaposition, this film, like its predecessor, The Cohens and Kellys, is no doubt hilarious. The previous picture not only was, in the opinion of many, a riot; it also caused violent scenes to take place in some of the theatres where it was shown. People threw tomatoes at the screen and at each other. The sequel is less likely to precipitate...
Credulous persons who enjoy a faith in parental paradoxes were no doubt disconcerted last week when they discovered the result of researches into the heredity of students at Yale and Harvard. These results were announced by Dr. Ellsworth Huntington, research associate of the department of geography at Yale. They indicated that the most representative undergraduates, the most successful graduates from Yale and Harvard were the sons of missionaries; next came the sons of professors; third came the sons of ministers. Businessmen's sons were low on the list, farmers' sons at the bottom...