Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through everything Clim makes his cold and dubious way: the university, journalism, a law office. He marries Varvara, mainly for intellectual reasons, and cares very little when her love is chilled into seeking warmth elsewhere. Clim is really a parlor liberal, but even parlor liberals were looked at askance in Tsarist Russia, and he several times runs foul of the police, once goes to jail. Not from any excessive love for his fellow-man but because he has a head on his shoulders Clim begins to side with the revolutionaries. No longer just a bystander, he begins to feel...
...Scripps, like "Old Joe" Pulitzer used to wear a beard. "Bob" Scripps has been growing one since October. From a dubious trowel beard it has evolved into a handsome spade affair, Messianic full face and like Italos Balbo's in profile. Partner Howard's visage remains the same-chipmunkish, irrepressible, oriental. Quicker to read than their faces are their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained...
...Iowa Sirs: Congratulations. ... I enjoyed the performance tremendously. I thought it very well presented. It sparkled and sizzled with dramatic interest-particularly that section of your broadcast devoted to the story of the sale of the New York World. When this story was first announced I was a bit dubious that any radio presentation could portray the news of the day in a fashion as interesting, alive and fascinating as you handled these matters in the columns of TIME. But I see that once again you have succeeded in tack- ling a difficult task and making it register with...
...that it was supposed to rise almost vertically, descend slowly and vertically; that it was undergoing some sort of experiments at the hands of its inventor, Senor Juan de la Cierva and its U. S. promoter, Harold F. Pitcairn, manufacturer of airplanes. But it was still a strange and dubious invention, remote from any popular notion of practical flying - until last week when two things happened: 1) Autogiro Co. of America advertised to the public that autogiros may now be bought, and 2) Detroit News bought and received the first commercial autogiro in the world. Next month one will...
With this extremely mature thesis and the decided trend toward individual liberty the question as to whether freshmen and sophomores are sufficiently competent really to benefit by this method of education is a very dubious one. Dr. Meiklejohn however considers the time ripe for an evaluation of his experiment and the results whether favorable or unfavorable can not fall to be of help in the task of creating a balanced university adapted to the needs of modern life...