Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all virtuosi, he is the recipient of a good deal of criticism, both deserved and undeserved, and there is no doubt that many of its interpretations are not entirely pleasing to our Anglo-Saxon ears. Some listeners would prefer more contemporary works--others would not venture beyond Debussey. But in the main, he manages to do an admirable job of pleasing everyone and there are few indeed who do not thoroughly enjoy any of the series of five concerts to which they may subscribe...
...Colonies for the North American Review, the autobiographical sketch discovered five years ago,* shed little new light on its author's life. But the letter, written when the Constitution was 40 years old voiced sentiments interesting on the Constitution's 150th birthday: "I begin to doubt whether it will be long practicable peaceably to elect a Chief Magistrate possessing the powers which the Constitution confers on the President of the United States. ... I begin to fear that our Constitution is not doomed to be so long lived as its real friends have hoped. What may follow sets conjecture...
Social science Departments aid prospective students on three fronts tonight when Faculty members in History, in Government, and in Economics speak on the courses in their respective fields to all who are in doubt about their schedules...
...President Conant wrote a letter to the Overseers announcing that he had appointed a committee of nine professors to investigate the Walsh-Sweezy affair. In the letter the President admitted "the existence of substantial doubt within the University as to the justice or wisdom of the University's action. The committee of professors have as yet issued no public report of their findings...
...known that the murals were not finally approved nor paid for. Greatly amused, however, was energetic Forbes Watson of the Treasury's division of painting and sculpture. Said he: "In the first place there aren't many who can read Eskimo around Washington-and I doubt that the Puerto Ricans can. In the second place it requires a magnifying glass to make the writing legible...