Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...able to jest at his own failures is indicated in a humorous business card he had printed up following one of his political defeats. The card reads: "A Lincoln, Attorney and Councillor at Law, Springfield, Ill. To Whom It May Concern. My old customers and others are no doubt aware of the terrible time I have had in crossing the stream, and will be glad to know that I will be back on the same side from which I started, on or before the 4th of March next, when I will be ready to Swap Horses, Dispense Law, Make Jokes...
...fact that speed has been advanced so seriously as an argument for not submitting the proposed plans to the country, leads one to doubt the honesty of these men's intentions. By trying to take the "Short-cut" in such a furtive manner, they make the public feel that something is being "put over" on them. No one will deny that the abolition of child labor, and reduction of hours of work, as well as elimination of "sweated labor" with impossibly low wages, are very desirable goals, but the present method of packing the Supreme Court to do it, gives...
...sorry that Mr. Weaver, no doubt still deep in his jungles, is unaware of the pleasure his paragraphs have given...
...well-bred superciliousness. Not so when the Church of England deals with a body like the Orthodox Church of Rumania. The Anglican Church, convinced as it is that it is truly Catholic, is young compared with its Catholic colleagues throughout the world. And many an Anglican is sensitive because doubt has been cast-mostly by Roman Catholics- upon the validity of Anglican priestly powers, which are descended from those of Queen Elizabeth's first Archbishop, who according to Roman Catholics was not validly consecrated. Last week the Church of England was grateful because the Church of Rumania had acknowledged...
Even if the U. S. decided to catch up on its housing deficit, there is growing doubt whether it could now rustle enough skilled labor to do the job in a hurry. Even last year reports of labor shortages cropped up continually-of bricklayers in Duluth, of ironworkers in Kansas City, of all trades in Des Moines, of various trades in such assorted communities as New York City, Baltimore, Denver, Los Angeles, Altoona, Pa., Ann Arbor, Mich., Charleston, S. C., Tucson, Ariz. The shortage had by no means reached the boom stage, when contractors "pirate" building mechanics on their...