Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vague as the word "quarantine" might be, it clearly indicated that the President was prepared to use diplomatic if not economic pressure on international bullies. It left no doubt whatever that he intended to frame U. S. foreign policy to encourage peace not only by being a good neighbor. but by restraining bad neighbors. Next day his own Secretary of State Cordell Hull took the first step to put this new policy into effect...
...after sounding out best contacts with His Majesty's Government, cabled: "An economic boycott of Japan appears at the moment to be ruled out, for the British Government will have none of it. Without in the least trying to minimize Mr. Roosevelt's speech, the British doubt that the President himself intended to encourage such a boycott when he spoke of a 'quarantine' of aggressor nations. The most that can be hoped for, in the British view, is another of those 'gestures' that have been made so often by this and other nations...
What Now? Within the law there is little doubt that Chairman Douglas will do his job as rigorously as possible. Speaking for the Commission as its new chief he revealed the following immediate inten- tions...
...course, when the newts, armed by now and tired of it all, rise against their masters and begin blowing up dams, breakwaters, shorelines and continents while mankind, in a dither, retreats to the mountains. There Author Capek (pronounced Chah-peck) leaves them, with the issue for mankind still in doubt, but definitely ominous-looking...
When a group of undergraduates gathered last spring to discuss the practicality of an optional course in Christianity, considerable doubt was expressed as to the chances of interesting other students in the plan. It was carefully stressed that the course, if given, should not be made to depend on a large attendance, and that the lecturers should not feel neglected if they found themselves addresing a group of three of four conscientious listeners. Other promoters felt that the course should be highly informal, and should be held in one of the House Common Rooms, to lend an air of friendly...