Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would reinstatement be "unwise"? The President has himself, in appointing the committee, admitted "the existence of substantial doubt within the University as to the justice or wisdom of the university's action." Has the situation changed? And why "impractical??" Is it too late? Last year, in writing to the Board of Overseers about the committee of inquiry, the President said, "Since the appointments of Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy run for two years, there is ample time for me to reopen their casts if the committee's report warrants it." Yet now he offers not a word to refute...
...nostril was discovered in conjunction with numerous small glass fragments which Spinachseed believes, when pieced together, will form two cocktail glasses. If this is the case, Spinachseed's discovery is authentic beyond any doubt, for never before has a left nostril been found in association with its original shorts. This is regarded as incontrovertible evidence...
Said he of capital gains taxes: "It is not an old American principle we are abandoning. . . . [Not until 1913 were long-term capital gains taxed, and then with a $20,-ooo exemption.] With reference to the illustration which the President gave, he was just misinformed. I have no doubt about that, because I know the President is sincere in his utterances...
...year at Princeton's Graduate School. His fellowship requires that he spend some six months each year in Rome, but the rest of the time, far from reeling and moaning through the streets. Architect Iversen intends to travel-"if they keep the peace," he said gloomily, "which I doubt...
...where her husband worked for a rubber company. Since he knew of her past, she thought the marriage was hopeless from the start, nevertheless made a desperate effort to become respectable, was frustrated by her former clients, her mother's malicious disclosures, her husband's sullenness and doubt, her own inertia...