Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with leukemia, depressed by the state of the divided world, he began to doubt his basic premise. Last week, Geoffrey Pyke, 54, gave up, killed himself with an overdose of a barbiturate. It was the only unoriginal thing he had ever done...
...last week the Generalissimo returned from his meditative sojourn at Kuling. Nanking learned only that he had passed the days in long walks or, when the weather was bad, in playing Chinese chess with Madame Chiang in front of the fireplace. But there was no doubt of what the Generalissimo had been meditating on: his China was breaking...
Defects of doubt, and taints of blood...
From an idealistic point of view it seems apparent that most of the motivating factors that precipitated the 1943 action have disappeared. On the other hand there is equally little doubt about the permanence of the logic of the 1934 decision, in its call for student maturity and independence and elimination of wasteful clerical processes--theories backed strongly at the time by the Council and other College groups...
...Michigan offensive system which Valpey will bring with him be tossed off as too complicated for the poor little Harvards. There is little doubt that the tricky ball-handling involved will serve simply to arouse squad interest and make the boys work harder...