Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mean that these countries will docilely submit to orders from Berlin. The dynamic force of nationalism must not be overlooked. Peoples like the Poles and Slavs can be counted upon to fight to the last man for their independent status. Even if once conquered, such subjects would be extremely dubious allies in event of another world conflagration...
...Harvard' Powers almost swam a dead heat for second, the Lion natator getting the decision. The explanation of Curwen's slow time is that his arm was caught around a lane-marker. Bosworth's 1:43.3 in the 150-yard dorsal event was fast in view of his dubious health, Tom Finnerty barely came in ahead of Craig Moore for second...
...critics thought some of Mr. Mednikoff's work, such as Little Nigger Boys Don't Tell Lies (see cut), beautifully painted. But neurologists and psychiatrists were considerably more dubious of the value of self-administered surrealistic psychotherapy...
Little scientific work has been done on the "language" of animals. Partly because most animals are not very gabby, partly because they are shy, until lately the only available collections of animal noises have been the dubious data supplied by bird-and-barnyard imitators...
...esteemed the Groups as highly as the enclosed newspaper did (of which there is no evidence)." One tenet of Buchmanism is "Absolute Honesty" (along with Absolute Purity, Love, Unselfishness). Cracked the Monthly: "We do not for a moment suppose that Dr. Tucker was a party to this devious and dubious business, nor the Archbishop either; but it does go to show what happens to 'absolute honesty' in an advertising...