Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admitting "the existence of substantial doubt within the University as to the justice or wisdom of the University's action" in regard to the Walsh-Sweezy case, President Conant wrote a letter to the Overseers dated May 26th in which he announced he had appointed a committee to investigate the affair...
...further action or comment on my part would seem to be required until the committee have made their report. I should, however, like to say that the existence of substantial doubt within the University as to the justice or wisdom of the University's action is sufficient ground for welcoming an inquiry...
...read with interest Mr. Starbuck's letter (TIME, May 3) telling TIME readers of the merchant seaman's desire for books. This good correspondent from the way he writes is no doubt a deck officer and rudely forgets to include ship's engineers as also being great readers not only of magazines but the classics...
William Kidd was a Scotsman born (about 1645), though his parentage is as much in doubt as his early life. A seafaring man of some sort he became, and by the time he was 45 he was well known in the little colony of New York as a competent skipper and a man of substance. Where he learnt his competence and where he got his substance is conjectural: probably the East Indies. As a citizen of Manhattan, Kidd married a twice-widowed lady, built a house on the Hudson and traded in real estate. One of the lots he sold...
...finest drivers," he declared, "are truck drivers. Their judgment skill, and coordination are perfect. And the worst drivers, without a doubt are women...