Word: suspected
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...observations, for which all the formulas now found in charthouse books had to be worked out on the spot. The result gave longitude within 30 miles. Of course, there was John Hamilton Moore's Practical Navigator, a British work. But Bowditch and many another navigator had come to suspect that Moore was barnacled with errors, and that his errors had landed many a ship on the rocks...
Cripples and Criminals. Encephalitis is a convenient name for a class of diseases which attack the grey and white matter of the brain. What causes infection is a mystery, although doctors suspect a filterable virus. In the U.S. two forms of encephalitis have been discovered: 1) equine encephalitis, a horse disease, which may be transmitted to human beings by mosquitoes; 2) St. Louis encephalitis, named after the epidemics which raged in St. Louis in 1933 and again in 1937. Although they first appeared together, flu has no direct connection with encephalitis; it may, of course, weaken resistance to the nerve...
...Every war has made profiteers, and many a Washington official is beginning to suspect that World War II will be no exception. The House Naval Affairs Committee planned early hearings on a preliminary report that some shipbuilding companies are earning up to 150% on their investments. The Office of Price Administration, investigating an unnamed defense industry, found that 86 of 88 companies earn 6% or better, half earn 42.6% and up, one earns 112%. Senator David I. Walsh predicted "an awful day of reckoning" when the U.S. public gets the figures...
Forceful Mr. Fay, who has never sought the limelight, soon rose to fame. He became a big shot in labor circles, an employer, a pal of Jersey City's Boss Frank Hague. Charges of racketeering were frequently hurled at him, never stuck. He was named as a suspect in the shooting and killing of a New York labor leader who defied him. (The case was never brought to trial.) Last year, when David Dubinsky tried to force an anti-racketeering resolution through an A.F. of L. convention, Mr. Fay was said to have slugged him. ("There was a little...
Although the public might suspect that what he had in mind was a new kind of NRA, fear that such councils might create dangerous monopolies and collusions, yet talk of fingers on the pulse made better sense than talk of fingers at the throat...