Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government of the United States has made a great step forward in the recognition of its role assuring opportunity for all who can profit by higher education. It seems unfortunate that such a forward step should be the occasion of doubt--doubt concerning the responsibility of our institutions of higher education, and doubt concerning the loyalty of those they seek to help along the road to greater service to their country. Robert F. Goheen, President...
Soon even some of the biggest wheels in Detroit began to doubt that U.S. consumers wanted their cars so big and bright. In the forefront of public doubters was American Motors' President George Romney (TIME, April 6, 1959). Privately, there was also Ed Cole, who had been working on a compact car for years...
Only one faint whiff of danger marred coffee's future. The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week noted that U.S. scientists have tracked down more than 30 of the volatile chemicals that give coffee its flavor, issued a report that concluded "there is little reason to doubt" synthetic coffee is on the way at a price about one-fifth of the real thing...
...fellow architects doubt that there will ever be an Aalto school of architecture. "How can there be?" one asks. "You can't copy Aalto. When he comes up against a new problem, he finds a new solution...
...plane. Military men still argue the value of Wingate's tactical ideas. The U.S. borrowed them for Merrill's Marauders (TIME, April 30) with equally inconclusive results. In this able but densely written biography. Author Christopher (Four Studies in Loyalty) Sykes insists there can be no doubt of their psychological importance. Wingate proved to a disheartened army that British troops could be as adept at jungle fighting as the Japanese. To beleaguered Britain, his exploits brought a badly needed exhilaration, after the long succession of defeats from Hong Kong to Singapore to Burma...