Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...match, seven others in succession,--twice from Columbia and Pennsylvania, and once from Springfield Training School, Bowdoin, and New York City College. For the University, however, the meet marked the end of a peculiarly unfortunate season, although during the progress of the bouts with Yale the outcome was so dubious as to suggest that the season might perhaps close victoriously. The University has won but one meet, and that its first, with Bowdoin. The following, with Pennsylvania, Annapolis, and Springfield Training School have all been lost, owing undoubtedly to a great extent to the continuing illness of Captain...
Accordingly, the suggestion from Paris seems especially pertinent. To supplant the dead trees with mature full-grown trees is, briefly, the plan. The necessity of enduring a collection of ambitious but ineffective saplings while they try with dubious success to grow into trees is thus obviated. The period, necessarily of considerable length, between the time when the old trees begin to die and the time when other trees of healthy maturity appear to replace them is reduced to a minimum as is the risk of failure...
...time and attention of the members of the University. The inter-class debates, which the Council has re-established, have tended to arouse further interest in the College. However, this year the Freshman class has furnished little promising material and the outlook for a successful team is exceedingly dubious...
...ranges the Democrats who "far from keeping social justice in the background, cry it out from the house-tops," alongside the Republicans who "treat the new discovery deprecatingly, as a thing, that, in so far as it has not always existed, thanks to the Republican tariff, is a somewhat dubious vision." The Socialist champion agrees with the Progressives that both the Republican and the Democratic party are side-tracked; and are shortly to cease to be factors in the play of political forces...
...outlook was dubious at first, but inch by inch ground was gained, until the press, the political bosses, and the railroads had been overcome. The New Movement was fast becoming a necessity, because new economic conditions had arisen which demanded changes, and the people were beginning to realize the fact. The first step taken was to slacken the momentum of the opposition. The second and harder was to establish new working machinery as each part had to be adjusted carefully in order to run smoothly...