Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seeds for their gardens, and they don't see much help in sight on this score coming from the Americans. From India come reports of an imminent famine affecting hundreds of thousands. Although there seems to be little talk at present of starvation in Indonesia, no doubt there will be by the time the British have finished pillaging that country...
What Kapitza was doing last week was a pitch-black secret. No doubt the Soviet Institute of Physical Problems, which he heads, was frantically busy with bomb research. But the U.S.S.R. has other excellent physicists. To its Government, Kapitza was most valuable as a symbol of national security. To U.S. academicians, Peter Kapitza also stood as a symbol-a living symbol of science's lost internationalism...
...undergraduate members of the House demonstrated that little doubt exists over the future of tutorial in view of the recent limitations. 70% claimed that the curtailment meant a definite de-emphasis on tutorial while only 20% of the ballots gave any credence to the University's claim that the "retrenchment" would put the system on a "firmer footing...
...brought down the house. But when Louis, grinning wickedly, pursed his gigantic lips against his trumpet to play / Can't Give You Anything but Love or Who Threw the Whiskey in the Well, patient ears still heard the purest phrasing and most expert blowing around. There was no doubt about it-Louis ("Reverend Satchelmouth") Armstrong, after 30 years in the business, was still the king of the trumpet...
...might, as Trotsky wrote at the end of his preface, completely lack "the qualities of the historic initiator, thinker, writer or orator." Nevertheless, he knew how to make history, knew how to grasp and manage the forces, if not the ideas, of whose conflict history is the expression. No doubt it was true that Stalin's "first qualification was a contemptuous attitude toward ideas." No doubt "the idea...