Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baker House cricket team at Tech, with little experience but sufficient spirit, noticed that no team has ever called itself the U.S. champion and is ready to take on all comers. Crimson captain John Frith was dubious yesterday about the whole business and was more concerned with the club's match today with Howard University, a team that also claims the national championship...
BOSTON HERALD: Senator Morse, who has won this dubious victory over the Lady Ambassador, now qualifies, in our opinion, as the true heir of the late Senator McCarthy...
...publishes Asahi Science Magazine. The three Tokyo printing companies already equipped to print recording on paper expect mass production to reduce the present 4½?-per-page cost to 2? or less. Main drawback: the stay-at-home subscriber must pay $417 for equipment that will buy him the dubious privilege of hearing his magazine or newspaper roar like a waterfall or merely go bongbong...
...wonder that Heckel's two almost-poetic canvasses express less than they should, that their statement of color is raw, that their organization is dubious. The same equanimity is lacking. Only the idiom is changed. It is no surprise that Schlemmer's canvas lacks the aristocracy of truly resolved expression. One can even understand how Otto Muller's canvas of the gal who lost her Maiden-form, can get by, utterly lacking, as it is, in substance and the very minimum diginity a work of art ought to possess...
...winner of the "worst" actor award for the third straight year, Kirk Douglas, acknowledged the dubious honor last week. He asked that the grotesque trophy be "sent prepaid, please...