Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delineation of Huldy, for the brief strokes with which he has painted her arouse great interest and are executed with an apparently unconscious brilliancy. The reader gets a brief glance at a woman with sleepy eyes who would "rather be wanted than needed". Who "was vicious, beyond doubt; yet--there were not the marks of vice upon her, but rather of abounding life and deep undisciplined vitality...
...wasn't very wise myself, but I'd grown sensible enough to be definitely an coward forever," Bardamn declares. It is here that he plucks at the most vulnerable nervous fibre of the French--the secret doubt of their own courage that arises not from national cowardice but from the memory of the last war with its indescribable weariness, interminable sleeplessness, horror, death, filth and inevitable thousands of mutineers...
...They believed the churches should go on record against war (13,997 to 4,638) and 12,904 affirmed that they will not fight in any future war. As to serving as chaplains the ministers were divided, 8,534 for, 8,014 against, 3,779 in doubt. Most pacifistic single sect: the Methodist Episcopal Church...
...Miller's ironic letter in Thursday's CRIMSON succeeded so well in satirizing the usual ROTC-CRIMSON attitude toward the National Student League that we have little to add on that point. But as a matter of interest, many of your readers will no doubt be surprised to know that the use of sterilization as a weapon against political dissenters is a serious threat, if not an actual fact, at present in Germany. For this reason we believe Mr. Miller's letter, though an excellent job, wad ill-advised in choosing sterilization as the reductie ad absurdum of reactionary terrorism...
...without a shadow of doubt there is at the moment in Europe a huge and subversive force that Mes behind the arming and counter-arming of nations; there are mines, smelters, armament works, holding companies, and banks, entangled in an international embrace, yet working inevitably for the destruction of such little internationalism as the world has achieved so far. The control of these myriad companies vests, finally, in not more than a handful of men whose power, in some ways, reaches above the power of the State itself. Thus, French interests not only sold arms to Hungary in flat violation...