Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last January, the New Republic had printed an article about Hill by Wallace Stegner, professor of English at Stanford University. It concluded: "Hill . . . was probably guilty of the crime [a coldblooded killing of two men] though I think the State of Utah hardly proved his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt...
That the result could even for a moment be in doubt was a bitter comment on the West's terrible uncertainty. It was in the Italian peninsula that the West's Christian faith, bearing a cross and strange new hopes, had begun its conquest of the world. Was it to be defeated now, on the soil on which it had been strongest, by the new tyrannical faith of Communism...
...sure. Finally the delegates made their decision: "To continue the important work with which the governments have charged them until they have fully completed the task . . . for which they were convened." But that did not necessarily mean that the conference would stay in ruined Bogotá. There was doubt that shamefaced Colombia could continue as host to the great meeting of the Americas...
...death in 1927, he had assembled the finest collection of 18th Century British portraits in the U.S. (among them: Thomas Gainsborough's Blue Boy). And his purchases of 100,000 rare books and 1,000,000 precious manuscripts made him, in Bibliophile A.S.W. Rosenbach's judgment, "without doubt the greatest collector of books the world has ever known." In the judgment of Englishmen who hated to see their treasures taken off, he was one of history's colossal despoilers...
...recent survey of those who could choose between competitive radio and television programs, said Langhoff, showed that 94% chose television. Said he: ". . . When these two stand up and slug it out there is little doubt . . . who is the coming champ." Langhoff warned sponsors against wearing out the television audience with tediously repeated commercials. Since television demands undivided attention of the viewer, said Langhoff, it also "induces fatigue at a much greater rate than . . . radio, and possibly encourages sly drooping of the eyelids during the duller portions of a program...