Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slammed back Kramer's seemingly unretrievable smashes. Though he once declined all invitations to the net, he now rushed it incessantly. He had found that Kramer's weakest spot was his backhand. When Riggs won the match in straight sets (6-3, 6-3), there was little doubt in 6,529 minds about which was the better player. But next night everything was different. Riggs did not have the same zip; Big Jake won the first set at love and the second one 7-5. As the crowd milled out, there was considerable mumbling & grumbling. What was going...
...affairs? He had trained for it on items about "who was going to divorce whom, and who was going to have a baby, and approximately when." And he was fallible even there. With a scandalized look at the ethics of columnists, the Enquirer quoted him: "'The Monocle Set . ... doubt the recent rumor (that Queen Liz is enceinte). . . . We stole the rumor from a London correspondent for an American newsmag,* which is what comes from stealing news from amateurs...
...doubt The Common Chord will be belittled by those who mistake lugubriousness for seriousness and who dismiss O'Connor as a minor writer unworthy of his master, Joyce. But to write a work of minor stature as well as O'Connor does is in itself a kind of triumph all too rare...
There is no doubt that through UMT the country can gain an increased military reserve. But it will be a reserve only in that it has learned to live in a barracks, to overcome homesickness, to fire an M1 rifle. The talents that could be acquired in six months would be useful but hardly indispensible. In the overall picture of advanced technology and production potential the value of such meagre training is negligible...
...University should spare no effort to make AVC's job a minor one, however. Some of the official reasons for raising rents at all are decidedly open to doubt; a ham-handed administration of next fall's unpleasantness will surely do little to quiet these suspicions. Of course, some hardship cases will certainly result from the increase. But these must be cut to a minimum by careful and efficient methods. A torrent of student demands for redress will only indicate that the University has botched its policy. What is now a rather low and indistinct undergraduate grumbling pointed...