Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rule. Harvard last participated in-a game after the completion of the regular schedule when it journeyed to California for a game with Oregon in 1920. Since that time, the idea has always been frowned upon because of such tendencies as overemphasis, absence from classwork and the dubious practicality' of continuing a sport season beyond its usual period. The evident lack of the names of responsible officials, both in the personnel of the two universities and the Red Cross, seems a direct refutation of the scheme advanced in the press...
...development of the motion picture has, curiously enough, been tied up with the evolution of its etymology. In the realm of entertainment, its first love, it has commonly been designated as "movie", "the silent screen" and finally as "talkie." As a dubious participator on the outer fringe of Art it bore somewhat proudly the name "cinema", with French embellishments. Happily harmonious in its simplicity, the word "film" has always distinguished the offspring of Edison in its cursory invasion of the laboratory...
...scrimmage that lost Cunningham to the Harvard cause for this year the University squad won a dubious victory over the seconds. Play was ragged and sheddy but was characterized by the coaches as a typical Monday workout Devens Forbes and Fullam playing with the A.B. and C backfields respectively went over the line for the first team Devens counted his after about five minutes of scrimmage, after a tun by Ticknor on an intercepted mpass had put the ball deep in second team territory...
Chief Charge. Back in Manhattan the committee returned to the charge, made by Grover Aloysius Whalen, onetime New York Police Commissioner, and supported by dubious documents, that Amtorg Trading Corp., Soviet commercial agency in the U. S., is also the secret U. S. headquarters for Soviet political propaganda and agitation (TIME, May 12). At the hearings, bomb squad detectives lined the walls. A Russian monarchist sat just behind the committee to prompt and whisper. Curious women fanned and gasped in the stuffy room...
That evening the Bambergers' attorney located the Watkins, brought them and his clients to a secret conference with six physicians. Each mother was certain she possessed her own child. Mr. Bamberger agreed. But Mr. Watkins continued dubious and pugnacious. He quieted down when the hospital doctors persuaded him to study the egg-shaped head of the baby his wife held and the round head of the baby in Mrs. Bamberger's lap. They explained : Mrs. Watkins' baby was her first, Mrs. Bamberger's her third. First babies usually have warped heads because they must force their way through the bony...