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Word: doubting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There seems little reason to doubt that the most versatile of all Harvard track captains for some time will fall to reach his objective. So far this year Green has taken 11 wins out of a possible 12. His only second was in the indoor I. C. 4A's when he took a second in the broad jump to Stan Johnson of Tech in the broad jump with a leap considerably under 24 feet. As for the meet itself-Yale will be smothered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GREEN WILL ATTEMPT TRIPLE IN YALE MEET | 5/21/1936 | See Source »

...think it is unquestionable," he concluded, "that the law will operate in favor of the large, established companies. . . . This no doubt accounts for the fact that comparatively little opposition to the bill has come from the large corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: May Over Morgenthau | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

From Yeats's point of view, Moore was very ignorant: he had read nothing ("I doubt if he had read a play of Shakespeare's even at the end of his life"), had picked up everything he knew from cafe talk in Paris. The problem of style had never occurred to him before he met Yeats; their collaboration was "unmixed misfortune for Moore, it set him upon a pursuit of style that made barren his later years." And Moore misunderstood his talent in other ways. He prided himself on his discerning palate. A tricky friend, dining with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prize Poet's Progress | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...result men reach the age of 40 or 45 still on a small salary, and Harvard cannot throw them into the street. Meantime, realizing this situation, tutors and section men worry about their future. The calibre of their work of necessity drops because of insecurity and continual doubt; they are over-tired, inefficient; nervous breakdowns are not unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHERE TO HARVARD? | 5/15/1936 | See Source »

...Johns Hopkins Dr. Wood used the same method for laying down on his plates first a thin coat of hard chromium, then a layer of soft aluminum. To make diffraction gratings the diamond point had to cut only through the aluminum skin. Last week Dr. Wood left no doubt that these gratings, with 210,000 lines in a space of seven inches, are the finest ever made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians | 5/11/1936 | See Source »

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