Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cincinnati (TIME, July 2). Centre of the excitement was a tall, husky Irishman named Joseph I. Breen. Mr. Breen, onetime Associated Pressman, was about to become the cinema's chief censor. His job will be to read scripts before production, to send assistants to supervise production of dubious sequences, to preview finished films and mark those that pass with a "subtitle" indicating that they are fit moral fare for U. S. cinemaddicts. Pictures too dirty to pass Censor Breen will be subjected to scrutiny, not as heretofore by a friendly committee of three producers, but by a special convention...
...baseball critics, many of the selections on the all-star teams seemed dubious. Obviously Babe Ruth, who at 40 is probably in his last big-league year, would play outfield; he got 114,999 votes. Nonetheless, on the basis of field performance this year either Ben Chapman (Yankees), who got only 19,076, or Heinie Manush (Senators), who got 82,410, was more deserving. Big league managers are not wholeheartedly in favor of an all-star game. They feel that it tires their best players, gives the two special managers an unfair advantage because they may get a chance...
...Juneau properties, bought a gold brick worth $25,000. Back on the Exchange floor he wanted to put the brick on top of the Juneau post but his good friend Stuyvesant Fish decided a gilded paving stone would do just as well. Last year Ben Smith had the dubious pleasure of turning his brick into the treasury at $20.67 Per ounce. Eggs, butter, lard and other farm products have long had speculators to assume future risks. Largest butter & egg market is in Chicago but handy for Wall Streeters is the second largest-Manhattan's old Mercantile Exchange, where chalk...
...effective it will be in practice is an open question. It must be agreed that Harvard has definite benefits and advantages to offer the "middle-western" young men, but the initial assumption that Harvard has an inherent duty to the nation which it should fulfill is a somewhat dubious...
...their well-led strikes for a living wage in the valleys last year. She has to carry on the same struggle this year, and next year, and the next. She thinks she can make consumers, citizens and human beings out of these peon producers. An audacious experiment, as dubious as mine, and therefore worth boosting. But she hasn't even a typewriter to make clear to us and to the workers, the strategic plans she draws...