Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...river, or of the lots beyond Peabody Museum and the Film Foundation, might economically be made over for the purpose, with nominal levies on the users. The University would in this way be doing its students and the police a service, and would forestall any more of such dubious go-getting as the garages have been accused...
Rich Lord Peter Wimsey turns advertiser to solve a dubious death. He earns his four quid a week, writes many a jesting line ("The Skeleton in the Water-closet," "Snagsbury's Soups Are Best for the Troops"). The burlesqued but convincing description of an advertising agency is from first-hand knowledge; Author Dorothy Sayres has been a successful copywriter in a London agency. More than that, she is a member of London's famed Detection Club, an informal organization for promoting honesty and high literary standards in fictional crime-solving. "No Mumbo-Jumbo, Jiggery-Pokery, Death Rays...
...Homeowner may apply to Home Owners Loan Corp. for a review of his case. No case in which the mortgage covers more than 80% of the value of the property will be considered. Home Owners Loan Corp. would offer the mortgage holder perhaps $6,000 in bonds for the dubious $8.000 mortgage. The bonds would bear 4% interest, guaranteed by the Treasury. John Homeowner would pay 5% interest to the Government on his reduced mortgage, would have 15 years, with the possibility of a three-year extension, to make principal payments. The Government would also offer John Homeowner a small...
...much is a matter of history; these two men caught something of the spirit of the fragments of time in which they lived, and they directed in some part the course of events. Was not Henry Adams, ironic, questioning, dubious, ill directed in his search for a manifest destifly as much the monarch--a suitable Adams word--among his contemporaries? But on this or on any other philosophic aspect of his subject Mr. Adams refuses to speculate. Only once, after carefully heading his bet, does he launch out into the realm of personal speculation. "I may," he says, "be quite...
...writer to editorials published on the subject in these columns. There the will find it carefully explained that groups of friends will be allowed to enter the Houses under the new plan as before; further, that the Houses at present are alike except in financial and architectural details, very dubious basis for differentiation in membership, though they were undoubtedly the determining factor which caused several hundred Freshmen to stampede for Eliot House. If "corporate personality" is to develop it might have a firmer foundation than wash basins...