Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group that included Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Edgar Lee Masters. Called variously iconoclast, intellectual mountebank, "in-sincere fiddler," "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," Hecht was famed for his conversation; "his subtle innuendoes, his philosophical observations, his penetrating irony, his vehement indignation, his gentle persuasiveness, his dubious facts." Once a collaborator with Maxwell Bodenheim, Hecht soon quarreled with him: the quarrel is still going on.* Mustachioed, with rumpled hair, pouchy eyes, Ben Hecht looks like what he is: a metropolitan, a journalist...
...stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London. One job was selling stock in the so-called "Glass Casket Company," a speculation peculiarly appealing to the British investor. Another time Mr. Factor was about to mail out some 300,000 glowing descriptions of a platinum mine when its dubious character was exposed. The 300,000 stamps were already stuck upon 300,000 envelopes. In vain did Swindler Factor try to get his stamp money back from the inflexible British Post Office...
Education cannot be viewed as a pillow upon which youth is urged to sit down one moment beyond the time required to finish preparation for the more serious business of life. Education which bids youth to avoid the fight for which it has equipped itself is surely a dubious mentor. Beyond question, the difficulties in the way of graduating classes from our higher institutions of learning are this year formidable. But the only way to solve a difficulty is to grapple with it directly. Opportunity to earn one's living is found no other way, even in the darkest hours...
Crain. After a mysterious conference with Governor Roosevelt, Referee Samuel Seabury began to wind up his hearing of misfeasance charges against District Attorney Thomas C. T. Crain, aged Tammany Sachem. In contrast to the dubious witnesses who have come before the inquiry for the past eight weeks was the appearance of Dr. Raymond Mcley, professor of public law at Columbia University. Professor Moley gave damaging testimony against Sachem Crain not by word of mouth but by a series of pitilessly clear charts which told in bold, graphic fashion the story of Mr. Crain's sorry administration. The Columbia pedagog...
...administration can supply, but also a considerable amount of system and organization. Too much policy and too much outside interference are admittedly bad, but to give athletic control to a continually changing group of undergraduates is the poorest solution for the problem. Mr. Tunis, in an article replete with dubious and inaccurate statements, paints an ideal which would supplement a few difficulties with many others far greater...