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Word: doubting (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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There can be little doubt that, whether or not Joyce will be a popular author according to the taste of future generations, he will always be a writer of primary importance to the historian and student of the novel in this country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections & Critiques | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...were appointed to the Supreme Court, it would be extremely difficult for him to continue this work. In his recent speech at the unveiling of the portrait of Justice Louis D. Brandeis, he referred to the "monastic life of a Supreme Court Justice," and his friends entertained but little doubt of what he was referring...

Author: By Staff Reporter, | Title: Harvard's Frankfurter Believed Sure for Supreme Court Berth | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...times only when he was out of office. Retired to Northampton, turning out his autobiography at $5 a word and a short syndicated column at $3.25 a word, brooding disgustedly over Hoover's shortcomings, watching his gilt-edged investments sink lower & lower, Coolidge at last confessed private doubt that "the business of America is business." "In other periods of depression," he admitted, "it has always been possible to see some things which were solid and upon which you could base hope, but as I look back I can see nothing to give ground for hope, nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Throwback | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

Elmer Andrews and his staff issued tentative definitions (TIME, Oct. 31) and freely ladled out the hard-boiled advice: "When in doubt, comply." But the fact was that no one could give a final answer. A sizable segment of U. S. economic life is at the mercy of a law which only the courts can legally interpret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Adapted from I. A. R. Wylie's Saturday Evening Post serial, The Gay Banditti, The Young in Heart never permits its audience much doubt about how the lion & lamb relationship of its major characters will eventually resolve itself. However, if it has often been told before, the story has rarely been told better. Richard Wallace's direction, Paul Osborn's screen play, Franz Waxman's score and the acting of precisely the right cast combine to make it the wittiest and most civilized cinema comedy of the year. Good sequence: Colonel Carleton and his son, whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 14, 1938 | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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