Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been enervated by the war. Whatever the reason, Harvard has lost pre-eminence in many of the departments of the Humanities. The very base of the individuality of the University, the tutorial system, is threatened; new concepts of the old truism, intellectual balance within the student body, spread doubt that a worthy theory will be applied. The faculty may already be committed to the General Education Plan, but the undergraduate body stands at the shore, doubtful that the ice is strong...
...claims 10,000 out of 60,000 pullers. Its membership fee is 5?; its boss is an oratorical, brown-gowned Kuomintang man named Chang. It was Chang's union which drew up and sent to the Government a petition voicing the ricksha men's fear and doubt over the plan to abolish rickshas...
...grounds-to spare the prince a "dangerous" trip down the street-he had learned his lessons by rote and recited them, singsong fashion, with other young male aristocrats. He had also studied English with a British tutor, long resident in Japan, whose future under an American matriarchy remained in doubt...
...worried at the charge of snobbery. Class-consciousness, particularly in England, has been so much inflamed nowadays that to mention a nobleman is like mentioning a prostitute 60 years ago. The new prudes say: 'No doubt such people do exist but we would sooner not hear about them.' I reserve the right to deal with the kind of people I know best...
Vardis Fisher's saga of primitive man reaches Volume III with Intimations of Eve (earlier volumes: Darkness and the Deep, The Golden Rooms). Without doubt these are the most remarkable subhistorical works ever written in the State of Idaho. Unrelated to one another so far as "story" goes, they are part of what Fisher obviously regards as a serious attempt to trace "the origin and evolution of human morality" from the days of the ape man to relatively modern times. At what point of human development the saga will end is not clear, nor is it altogether clear...