Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guardian, Curtiss, whose non-chalent impenetrability last Saturday night almost completely check-mated Harvard's most desperate cannonades. A vital factor in the Eli campaign is the availability of Iglehart, brilliant defenseman and goal-getter. Sinus trouble prevented his taking part in the second game and it is extremely dubious whether recovery will be prompt enough to insure a reappearance. Coach Stubbs of Harvard, on the other hand, has his team at full strength...
...when other manufacturers were still dubious about the power of advertising, Wrigley believed in it ("Tell 'em quick and tell 'em often"), spent millions to publicize his gum in practically every country of the globe. He lost several small fortunes in the process. But the fortune he finally attained was reputed to be close to $100,000,000. In 1917 he bought an interest (along with Jonathan Ogden Armour and Albert David Lasker) in the Chicago Cubs, the money-losing, badly run National League baseball club whose members lived so riotously that Wrigley virtually took on the role...
...stirrings & clashings were simply the setting for an International House Party, "planned under the leadership of the Holy Spirit" by The Groups?followers of Rev. Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman. Known in the U. S. as "A First Century Christian Fellowship" ("Buchmanism" to a dubious press), The Groups held large house parties in Cape Town. South Africa two years ago and in Oxford last summer. In Manhattan, The Groups influence emanates from Calvary Protestant Episcopal Church. Their activities?personal evangelism, weekly meetings in the parish house?are led by Rev. Ray Foote Purdy, onetime Princeton Y. M. C. A. secretary...
...dressed in the slightly garish style of a typical upper-west side hausfrau, Charlotte Fixel waited for the court to decide whether she was entitled to demand one-half of an estate which she estimated at $75,000,000 or whether she would emerge, after her years of slightly dubious affluence, a dumpy disappointed warning to women who place their faith in "common...
...short stories, then a radio sketch about rural life in Maine. Success came when he got a radio station in Hartford, Conn, to try out a scene in an old-time singing school, with "Seth Parker" as central figure. National Broadcasting Co. heard of it, signed up Author Lord. Dubious when he began to deepen the religious flavor of his skit, N. B. C. soon discovered it had a treasure. Until the program was temporarily taken off last month, 3,510,000 people were estimated to listen in every Sunday night on "Sunday at Seth Parker's." Mr. Lord...