Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Russia. Cabled veteran Paris Correspondent John Elliott of the Herald Tribune: "Political circles here are convinced that . . . the visit to Paris of General Ludwig Beck . . . and the dramatic about face of the 72 Communist members of the Chamber . . . have a direct bearing on each other. . . . There can be no doubt that the General's visit was inspired by the British Foreign Office, anxious to break up the Rome-Berlin axis and establish co-operation between Britain, France and Germany...
...biscuits to four dogs playing in a vacant lot, might think she was a queer old busybody but a kindly one. If the four dogs all fell sick that evening, three of them fatally, the witness might well recall the old lady and tell the police, but still not doubt her kindness. If the old lady, in police court, explained that she was a great friend of animals, a contributor to humane societies, habitually solicitous of waifs and strays, she might be considered an unfortunate victim of coincidence, sure to be cleared at her trial...
Last we forget what has happened in this 1936-1937 academic year . . . . last we forget what has appeared in column five every morning, it might be well to summarize the events of the last year. Political, social, economic, and academic events they are, and some of us will no doubt remember that we were once dismayed by the fact that the country had all "gone Roosevelt", shocked by the dismissal of Walsh and Sweezy, or jubliant over a swimming team that beat Yale...
Only for a moment, however, did Governor Earle leave his hearers in doubt about his imaginary line. "From my present home," he said, "it is only an hour's drive to the Mason-Dixon line. From my birthplace in Chester County, it is even closer. . . . Whether I am north of it, in my home, or south of it on my farm in Cambridge, Md., I find men and women occupied with similar problems...
...speech there could be no doubt that Governor Earle had undertaken a great feat, never before performed by man: having made a political crossing of the color line, to make a political crossing of the Mason-Dixon...