Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suspicion of the fallibility of the statistics that are so often used to demonstrate the greatly superior earning power of college men has started an investigation of these figures at Columbia. In the new division of Economics of Education, graduate students are delving for the human equation beneath the never questioned fact that each year of formal education equals a step in a geometric progression of salary increases. The leader of the research, Dr. Clark, says confidently "We believe that we are on the road to finding a startling reversal of facts that will affect the whole economic foundation...
...foreign policies of the Harding and Coolidge Administrations . . . have aroused suspicion as to the good faith of our motives...
...with so many inventions the new neon gaslight signs now rapidly appearing in every large city of the world have aroused suspicion-that they gave out ultraviolet rays injurious to the eyes. In Buenos Aires one P. Satanowsky quieted fears by having assistants work in neon light several hours daily for several days. His conclusion, heard in the U. S. last week, was that the light is not injurious, that the glass of the tubes containing the neon gas absorbs all the ultraviolet light...
Candidate Beck, frankly Wet, sought to persuade the people to retain under him and U. S. Senator Robert Marion ("Young Bob") La Follette the same Progressive Republicanism (conservative Socialism) which they learned and loved under the late, great La Follette Sr. There was suspicion that, far from being Smith-beaters, Candidate Beck and the La Follette contingent would ultimately stump for the Brown Derby...
...cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...