Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Morgan calls his part of the book "The Legacy of the Law: Doubt." He recounts the sequence of events of the crime in so far as they are definitely known, and then discusses every conceivable legal angle of the case, ranging from the circumstances of the first arrests to the desperate and unsuccessful attempts to have the case brought before a Federal court as a last resort. He describes the trials, the controversial character of Judge Webster Thayer, the jury and the unorthodox way in which it was chosen, the witnesses and their testimony, and the involved question...
Although the legality of DP scholarships under the law passed by the 80th Congress was at first in doubt, West told the Council last night that the President's Committee administering the act has ruled that students placed in a University are considered "employed," and thus eligible for immigration...
...Eliot, with pity as well as derision, exposed its vulgarity, its self-doubt, its confusion and frustration, the 20th Century had no difficulty in recognizing itself. Eliot became one of the strongest influences on two generations of writers-his own contemporaries, and their immediate successors...
Beginning with Ash Wednesday (1930), Eliot left little room to doubt that the religious element was the most important to him, and that there was nothing temperate about his approach to this subject. He said: "If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin." His criticism of democracy was not aimed at its defects, but at its inadequacy, its incompleteness. Democracy without Christianity was not so much the opposite of the police state as it was its forerunner. "Liberalism can .prepare the way for that which...
...Bark. There was no doubt that the stock market, which had been as certain as everyone else of a G.O.P. victory, was panicked by all the Democratic talk of stand-by price controls, an excess-profits tax, repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, and demands for wage boosts from tough, confident unions backed by a labor-minded Administration (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But calmer businessmen recalled that it was a Democratic Congress which had let OPA die, that President Truman had approved the repeal of the wartime excess-profits tax in 1945, and that wage boosts were bound to come anyway...