Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time Laboraties Director Stanley S. Stevens remarked: "I am not at all anxious to move." Speculation grew during the course of the spring on the University's attitude toward the Alumni Committee scheme. Then in the April 24 interim report to the public Committee Chairman Saltonstall cast official doubt on the plan with the statement that investigation had disclosed "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive. The latter "ceiling" was alleged to stem from the concurrent existence...
...decade or more that survival has been in doubt-and plenty of literary buzzards have circled above the place of apparent extinction. Archibald MacLeish, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public...
Early in the week, portly, rosy-cheeked Veteran Communist Wilhelm Pieck called the signals for the Reds at a meeting of party functionaries in the Russian sector's Friedrichsstadt Palace. He confessed that the airlift was hurting the Red cause. Said Pieck: "There is no doubt that it has had a certain effect on the needy masses." Pieck cried for direct action against the uncompromisingly anti-Communist city government: "Fellow workers! You must frustrate a reactionary plot. Urgently we call on the people of Berlin to settle their score with . . . parties in the city government . . . We are sure...
...happened, Wilhelmina's reign was to see the world shaken by war, poverty, and floods of doubt and confusion. In World War II she was forced to flee her country, and with all the warmth she had suppressed in her younger years, she worked for liberation. War brought her a sense of comradeship with her people that she had never known. When she returned to her country, she was humble. "I should come hat in hand," she said, "asking if someone can put me up for the night...
...citizenship to underline his enthusiasm for world government (TIME, June 7). After a talk with his sister last week he explained why he might come back to the U.S. (the State Department will probably not be too tough about it): "It is not my purpose to create doubt and confusion...