Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among placard advertisements of chewing gum and corn cures a blurb reading "THE YANKEE AT KING EDWARD'S COURT" This sold at 15? each some 100,000 copies of the new New York Woman in which a spade was called a shovel thus: "While the outcome, no doubt, will be a victory for the Throne, the King, quite evidently, is the most helpless of creatures, a man over 40 who has fallen desperately in love." The New York World-Telegram, leading organ of the nation-wide Scripps-Howard chain, followed this with front-page pictures six inches high...
...admire her a great deal and am fond of her as I have known her. If what the newspapers say of my former husband's present financial standing is true. Audrey and I wish he could find it possible to provide adequately for her education and maintenance. I doubt very much the reports that Mr. Simpson and his wife are contemplating a divorce. I see no reason why either of them should wish it. The present Mrs. Simpson has enough of 'what it takes' to steal a man. Mr. Simpson walked out on me while...
...first place he can get rid of whimsical Christopher Morley's column "The Bowling Green," which no doubt attracts as many readers as all the other features of the Saturday Review (with the exception of the famed Personals) put together. Morley's column has to be read to be believed, and so long as it stays in it will continue to frighten away any serious and intelligent audience. In the second place he can get competent reviewers (not criticasters like the Benet boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There...
Final checkups may still be in order to determine just whether History 1 has 732 or 731 enrolled students, but there isn't any doubt about the number in Scandinavian 101. There are three, an auditor a graduate student fresh from Great Britain, and a Radcliffe girl with a conflict in her schedule...
...covers the entire field of honors study. This examination is usually attended by special examinations more limited in scope and is sometimes preceded by a preliminary examination (general but not necessarily comprehensive) at the end of Junior year. When the result of the written honors examination is in doubt, it may be followed and supplemented by an oral examination...