Word: suspected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gets a picture from his column that of every 40 important happenings, 25 are deaths, eight are marriages, six are divorces, one is a birth. Luckily for my morale, I live in a neighborhood where only occasionally someone dies. We marry happily. Children are born quite frequently . . . I suspect that famous people follow a similar pattern of living...
...skeptics, will come by a different route; probably they will not come at all. Only a handful of dedicated soldiers really believe in the threat of the North and yearn for the day when their fidelity will be put to the test. And even these rare men suspect that the only reason for their faith is that they want to "give life some significance...
Tuesday. The "half-educated boys" began to suspect that they had gone too far, agreed to soften the pledge by adding a proviso that, "for this convention only," it would not be binding if it interfered with state laws. But Virginia, South Carolina and Louisiana still refused to sign...
...motive? Deputy Chief Inspector James Leggett's instincts refused the idea. Could the killer have been enraged, not at the girl, but at the American Physical Society? The inspector sought out the society's treasurer, Dr. George B. Pegram. The doctor instantly suggested an oddly named suspect: Bayard Pfundtner Peakes, a former member, who had written a crackpot paper entitled "So You Love Physics" in which he argued that there was no such thing as an electron. Peakes had been railing at the society by mail for months for refusing to publish him. His letters had been mailed...
...Reed, Ballantine will face another sort of problem. In spite of the college's academic standing (among its former professors: Paul Douglas, Karl T. Compton), it still has more than the usual trouble raising money. Among the reasons: some local citizens, with no justification whatsoever, unfairly suspect its reputation for lively liberalism, and some still labor under the false suspicion that Communist John Reed founded it* and that its first president, William T. Foster, was really Communist William Z. In four years...