Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be no serious doubt of the value to a university community of either a Society of Fellows or of an Institute of Research. Practically, what the two institutions would accomplish would be to give definite positions to scholars of promise without laying on them any teaching or administrative duties. It has long been recognized that those duties interfere with the productive work of many members of the Faculty. And there is every reason to expect that protection from teaching duties by allowing leisure for growth would enable men who cannot now do it to reach maturity of scholarship...
Annam, the only empire in French Asia, lies facing the China Sea between the French protectorates of Cochin China and Tonking. With an area as large as Kentucky's and a population twice as great, Annam exports prime rice & pepper, fair tea, trinkets. Beyond a doubt her young Emperor would have preferred to remain in Paris and he almost had a chance to stay on. The August Messenger from the Regent of Annam who set out last spring to recall His Majesty traveled by the brand new French luxury liner Georges Phillipar. When she burned up and sank...
MOST of the early writers on democracy stressed the importance of education in making self-government a success. If they could return today and see what the result of the extension of educational facilities has been, there can be no doubt they would be thoroughly disillusioned. The almost unbelievable increase in the complexity of governmental problems has been accompanied by no corresponding development in the capacity of the electorate to deal with them, in spite of a vastly enlarged school system. Some hold that this failure is due to the inherent intellectual limitations of the common...
...There is ... no doubt universal condemnation of a flier who, for commercial exploitation, took two children on a flight of this sort. . . . The flight was undertaken as a builder-up for radio broadcasts, in which the whole family were to take part-undoubtedly a beguiling idea from the advertising standpoint."-New York World-Telegram...
...history and once the biggest businessman west of the Alleghenies, had used the accountant's art to inflate his profits, to hide losses, to make large dividends seem justified. Up to now it has been assumed that Mr. Insull failed with honor. Now this is put in doubt...