Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undoctored facts of the case argue that the question of free speech is not involved here. The decision seems to have revolved around an entirely different issue. To conclude that liberal rights are being sabotaged, it is necessary to poke around beneath the facts and to emerge with some dubious interpretations. It is necessary to attribute to Mr. Greene the most blatant sort of insincerity. At the very least, it requires imputing to him a certain amount of unconscious hypocrisy--an over-readiness to squirm out of a previous decision in Mr. Browder's favor. Only by reading between...
From last week's series of upsets, the anonymous CRIMSON predictors emerged with a dubious 677 percentage. Nothing daunted and mumbling something about "Hard luck," the prognosticators once more attach themselves out on a limb and whisper: Harvard 20 Pennsylvania 14 Yale 7 Army 6 Princeton 13 Columbia 6 Dartmouth 20 Lafayette 6 Alabama 16 Tennessee 13 Cornell 13 Penn State 7 Temple 19 Boston College 14 Minnesota 7 Ohio State 6 Northwestern 12 Wisconsin 6 Texas A. & M. 14T. C. U. 12 Michigan 61 Chicago 0 Notre Dame 13 Navy 0 Pittsburgh 20 Duquesne 7 Holy Cross 14 Brown...
...United Brewers Industrial Foundation worried about the possible war shortage of hops unless the U. S. modifies its acreage restrictions, deplored "unsocial" conditions in some bars, with an eye on such sleepless adversaries as Mrs. Boole's W.C.T.U., pointed proudly to their good housekeeping in cleaning up dubious dispensaries (resulting in the suspension of 120 licenses in seven States), elected tanned, towering, outdoorsy Carl Baden-hausen president, went home to their breweries...
...lots, has given the whole picture a refreshing sense of everyday people in an everyday world,--a sense which too many pictures lack and which makes too many well-constructed plots hollow. It would seem that Hollywood is hard up for plots when they have to resort to such dubious subjects as babies. But from the looks of "Bachelor Mother," may they find bigger and better babies and shoot bigger and better pictures about them...
...employed by foreign agencies) and most of them had nothing to report. Result was that they picked up rumors where they could. All week long, as the French Army advanced cautiously into no-man's-land between the Maginot Line and Germany's Westwall. dubious tales of major battles impending or in progress went across the Atlantic...