Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State men like Walter Huxman have been shining lights and dependable leaders in this commonwealth. They have rarely won official distinction. In the sixties and seventies and eighties they were called 'the silk-stocking democrats,' men of education, of talent, of character, of vision." I doubt if you would call that the description of a second-string politician...
...which provided a commercial market for the farmers of Illinois. Mr. Staley realized the possibilities in the soybean industry as far back as 1916 and even sent men to China to study the growing and cultivation of the soybean to be produced in this country. I doubt seriously if Mr. Henry Ford knew anything of the industry until years after Mr. Staley had done the pioneer work...
...Press, after three days of careful source-tapping and cross-checking cabled: "It is understood that Mr. Baldwin's meeting with Mr. Attlee established a common front of the Conservative and Labor parties on their attitude toward the friendship between the King and Mrs. Simpson, and left no doubt that the friendship had precipitated one of the most serious constitutional crises of modern times." In the London Times appeared the most thinly veiled of warnings to King Edward that an attempt on his part to marry Mrs. Simpson would be opposed by a united House of Commons...
...last week. After calm inspection of the scene of carnage they radioed home: "We make no comment upon the military situation, but a city of a million inhabitants is being subjected to attack from the ground and from the air. . . . Starvation is at work and epidemic seems inevitable. . . . We doubt if the magnitude of the appalling catastrophe is fully understood...
...their exuberance had filed 43,000 amendments to J. Stalin's Constitution-not that they expected these to be adopted or even debated but just for the fun of boasting afterward back home that they had filed an average of 17 amendment's each. There was no doubt that the Congress would vote whatever the Dictator wanted in its entirety this week and J. Stalin, ignoring the 43,000 amendments, told the Congress crisply: "In ten days we shall have a new Constitution...