Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leprous residents on the island of Molokai, and as one of the two physicians on leeward Molokai, I would like to clarify and correct the wrong impressions held by most people on the mainland, which were. no doubt, strengthened after reading your otherwise excellent article on Father Damien. The general impression seems to be that Molokai is inhabited solely, or, at least, largely by lepers...
...scoffer at the gene theory of heredity, England's formidable, bushy-browed Biologist William Bateson, went to the Columbia University laboratories of Thomas Hunt Morgan, examined the data, looked at the jars of fruit flies, stared down the microscopes, announced his conversion. Since then there has been little doubt among geneticists that the chromosomes in the germ cells are the theatres of heredity, that the ultimate agents, called genes, which transmit unit characters, occupy definite and fixed positions along the spindly, crooked chromosomes. Since then fame has come to Dr. Morgan and his flies, and to some...
...made itself one of the foremost nations of the world, and has given a great stimulus to commercialization in all parts of Asia. The stimulus has been felt in Siam and will doubtless be increasingly powerful in time to come. Commercialization seems inevitable in Siam, and no one can doubt that it is desirable for it to proceed from Siamese initiative...
...public from hearing authoritative criticism. Any person who has access to the truth and tries to inform the people or the Congress of the United States about it is quickly removed from the scene by Roosevelt, or the men who do his strong-arm work for him. No doubt if Major General Hagood continues to criticize the Administration, his reputation will be vilified, just as have the reputations of all those who have opposed the New Deal...
...have recently been reading some of your letters to T. Pomponius Atticus. Are you surprised? And here I would ask you: Did you mean these epistles one day to be given to the public? I should doubt it. But whether yes or no the trick is done. Leave such things to our age. Your life, dear friend, is quite an open book! And now, but only because I love you, I tell you that some of your remarks to L. Lucceius, the historian, pleading that he speak favorably of you--even beyond the truth if necessary make a pretty immodest...