Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...North Front there was little doubt that Italian forces had either been driven from Tembien Province north and west of Makale or had withdrawn voluntarily. Repeatedly Addis Ababa claimed that Makale had fallen but Italians held it strongly entrenched and Ras Seyoum, Ethiopia's hulking northern commander, was not fool enough to storm it. He had. however, a splendid present for his Emperor who was temporarily mudbound in Dessye-four white Italian prisoners, footsore and ragged but otherwise in a fine state of preservation. Instead of having them mutilated in the oldfangled Ethiopian" way, newfangled Haile Selassie, according...
...entered into a contract with a sensational magazine for a series of articles entitled "Jafsie Tells All". Today, as Bruno Richard Hauptmann nears the death chair, as the New Jersey court of pardons turns down his plea for a respite and as the public sithers in a wave of doubt and high-feeling, Governor Hoffman hurls the credulous and timely challenge-Condon has not told all And implication adds:-he knows far more than he has told and he is fleeing the country in fear...
...dynamite-caps or detonators used for blasting in mines. Last year a Baltimore woman, opening the door of a furnace, was struck in the breast by a copper pellet no bigger than a pinhead, which killed her. Investigation showed that the pellet had come from a detonator, no doubt left in the coal by a miner; that such detonators not only hurl a pellet at 6,000 ft. per sec. (three times the speed of a rifle bullet) but throw hundreds of minute shreds of copper, each able to penetrate nearly a millimetre of brass sheet. Pellets from detonators, directed...
...sign of their platonic troth, Moody wore a ring which Harriet had given him. Once there was a three-weeks' lapse in his letters from Europe. His shamefaced but still flowery explanation leaves a modern reader in doubt whether he had spent the interim in the gutter or had just not felt like writing: "After a time came rebellion and reckless grasping after life or what bore the semblance and wore the red flower of life, careless whether-nay, even glad if its heart were poisoned. I took-O sweet and noble soul, this will pain you cruelly...
Readers who had any doubt whatever that James Gould Cozzens was a professional writer in the best sense, last week had their doubts finally dispelled. His latest novel, Men and Brethren, is a highly interesting, racy book about faith and works, with a faithful, hard-working parson as its protagonist. And Author Cozzens has written it "straight," with no satire, as little horseplay as possible...