Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Little Caesar left no doubt that he meant to make a showdown fight of it: "I don't know who's going out of business, but I know we're going out of business if we continue making records...
...Miracles: "Modern man, with his thought shaped by scientific investigation, is certain that miracles ... do not happen, Only figuratively can the blind receive their sight, or the lame be made to walk, or the lepers be cleansed. . . . Without a doubt, the need to jettison the miraculous element in the New Testament . . . weakens the reliability of the gospel narratives; and, insofar as Christian teaching has been built upon the power of Jesus to perform miracles, and upon the miracles associated with His birth and death, it calls for a drastic refashioning of such teaching...
...good Roman Catholic doubts the importance of belief. And he has little excuse for doubt about how his beliefs apply to his relationships with God or his neighbor. Can a good Roman Catholic, then, approve of Communism? The answer is no. Can he wholeheartedly endorse free private enterprise? The answer is still no.* Diocesan study groups and Catholic labor schools are doing their best to fight Communism with something more than exorcism and epithets. Last week one of the leaders in this field, Jesuit Father William J. Smith, director of Brooklyn's Crown Heights Labor School, explained his church...
...justification for their choice will be administrative ability. . . . But is administrative ability a thing that, regardless of experience and background, can be transferred readily from one activity to another? . . . Would a successful college president be able to step into command of an army? I doubt it.*But even if such an interchange could be readily made, one must consider where . . . [it] . . . would lead. . . . We should inevitably see suggestions seriously made that heads of great corporations ... of large law firms ... be named college presidents. . . . And last but not least, public officials...
...hunch, staked out a 1,500-ft. claim around the mouth of a small spring where the blue sand was thick. They sent a sample of crumbly stuff across the mountains to an assayer in Grass Valley, Calif. He tested it twice, to be sure. There was no doubt: the stuff that gold miners had cursed and kicked aside was rich in silver...