Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whether the Committee is sincere or not will be decided by the Seniors who are being approached and asked to sign its petition. In any case, enough of the Committee's platform is so untenable as to make the casual observer doubt any significant outcome...
...still an open question whether the University errs in the way it admits students, but, layman or educator, no one can doubt that the ingrown attitude towards teachers who resign or are dismissed sometimes makes Harvard appear in the wrong...
...mean," said Krieger, "that you doubt me?" The reporter admitted...
...River (TIME, Nov. 8), is a hard poem of U. S. rivers. In Desert Near Santa Fe he caught with a series of fine washes, quickly dried with the brush, the 90-mile, lucent light of the Southwest; in Color Splendor he framed the broad Shenandoah Valley. Critics who doubt the permanency of soft poems noted that in at least one painting, Savage Trees, he swirled a brush full of rich color in a freer, more furious style...
...that it was autobiographical. Embarrassed critics, who had hailed the work as "pure music," complained that he was holding out on them. Wailed crotchety Britisher Ernest Newman: "With each new work of Strauss there is the same tomfoolery-one can use no milder word to describe proceedings that no doubt have a rude kind of German humor, but that strike other people as more than a trifle silly...