Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat dubious commentary on public feeling were minor elections held in Michigan last week. In Flint a union-supported city ticket was merely an also-ran, and Flint's county (Genesee), which previously voted New Deal, went Republican, as did five of eight industrial counties, but not Detroit (Wayne County). Of nine State officers elected (on unofficial returns), six were Democrats...
There was nothing furtive or dubious about this, as Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain quietly aired the facts in the House of Commons and such British union leaders as Arthur James ("Emperor"') Cook cried: "Thank God for Moscow...
...religionists are dubious as to how well they are doing in the unsettled present, they are in no doubt about the glories of their past, and these glories they keep bright with anniversary celebrations. Having lately joined with other churches in celebrating the centenary of the birth of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (TIME, Aug. 17), U. S. Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial...
...silent Seventh Heaven, adapted from Austin Strong's play, made Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell the top cinema stars of their era, Frank Borzage its most eminent director. Whether the current version of the story will have the same effect remains highly dubious. Contemporary cinematic fashion calls for overdressed sentimentality masquerading as sophistication. Seventh Heaven's strongest quality is sophisticated simplicity which, for the naive, may make its fragile little story seem even more sentimental than it is. Nonetheless, despite flaws in Henry King's direction and in Melville Baker's dialog when it occurred...
...irreconcilables like the Smithsonian Institution's Ales Hrdlicka stand ready to assail with sledgehammer blows the validity of even that recent dating. "It is to the everlasting credit of professional American anthropology that it has not succumbed to the itch for ancestors by giving recognition to the many dubious and spurious finds whose claims have too often received a facile acceptance abroad. No one can deny that this salutary state of affairs is due almost entirely to the righteous scientific iconoclasm of one formidable veteran, Dr. Hrdlicka. The unhappy but deserved fate of previous fossil pretenders to geological antiquity...