Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Arthur has never lost his enthusiasm for this cosmic soap bubble. But the speeds indicated by the amount of redshift, some of which now equal 25,000 miles per second, have made many astronomers doubt. Other causes for the redshift were suggested, such as cosmic dust or a change in the nature of light over great stretches of space. Two years ago Dr. Hubble admitted that the expanding universe might be an illusion, but implied that this was a cautious and colorless view. Last week it was apparent that he had shifted his position even further away from a literal...
...have our own opinions about slavery; we may be for or against the South; but there is no doubt that Jefferson Davis and other leaders of the South have made an army; they are making, it appears, a navy; and they have made, what is more than either, they have made a nation...
...romance is nipped in the bud by a hapless misunderstanding. Mitzi then showers all of her warm affection upon a gay young blade, one Baron Schober, and Shubert, unable to finish his symphony for which she was the inspiration, pines away in heroic devotion. Comic honors go without a doubt to Mitzi's father, old man Krantz, who makes an art of slapstick comedy. His performance as a drunk and a hard-boiled father saves the dialogue time and again from sinking into monotonous sentimentalism...
Athletic Director James Lynah has invited to visit him at his Georgia plantation the week after next the athletic directors from Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. There can be no doubt but that Ivy League plans will be foremost among the topics discussed at that time. And is certainly hoped that the results of this meeting will point toward the speedy adoption of definite Ivy League plans along the lines suggested in yesterday's editorial...
Five months ago Impresario Maurice Frank persuaded W. A. Conant, Beverly Hills real estate broker, and wealthy, retired Opera Singer Mme Emma Loeffler de Zaruba to help build a grand opera association in Los Angeles. At the in stance of Mme de Zaruba, a little doubt fully, Impresario Frank picked young James Guthrie to conduct. On the crucial night, most of the town's topnotch musicians were tied up with the Philharmonic...