Word: doubting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There can be no doubt but that the President wants to promote such a philosophy. As an individual his activities would arouse little concern, but as the President of Harvard his views are of great importance to the rest of the University. Further, the President is the upholder of the Harvard tradition, and his attempt to remake or redefine that tradition must be questioned, if not challenged...
Five years ago Nathan M. Pusey because President of Harvard University, and for five years his philosophy of education has been the object of both praise and doubt. At the present time the doubt has centered in a vehement and disorganized discussion on the proper use of Memorial Church, a discussion which has clouded the larger issues more than it has clarified them...
...other hand, Batista intends to cling to power and Rivero turns out to be just a puppet, December will no doubt see an intensification of violence in Cuba. The Cuban people have adopted an attitude of wait-and-see; it is becoming apparent that Castro should have done the same. Rigged elections are an excellent occasion for a popular uprising. If Batista tampers with the November vote, the Cubans may be roused from their apathy--as the Venezuelans were several months ago--into an active revolt that will end Batista's regime...
...election night the issue was never in doubt. Two hours after the polls closed in Ontario and Quebec, Liberal Pearson conceded the Tory victory, then sadly watched it roll westward across the time zones. It left the once-dominant Liberals with 49 seats, reduced the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation to a splinter of 8 seats, totally wiped out of Parliament Western Canada's funny-money Social Credit movement, which held 19 seats in the old House of Commons. Surveying the wreckage of his party's national ambitions, Alberta's Social Credit Premier Ernest Manning offered...
...your departments clearly with names the consumer understands. Then he won't have to sidle up to the man with the gun and whisper: 'Where can I get a loan?' Display what you have to sell, not money itself, but what money can buy. I doubt that even the most enticing display of $100 bills would persuade one man or woman to rent your money, but a display of air conditioners might...