Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into effect at the Theological School gives every promise of success for the future, said Dean Willard I Sperry in his recent report on the School. It is designed, said Dean Sperry, to make the scholarship grant & recognition of academic excellence. To accomplish this and "to escape from the suspicion of giving Indiscriminate financial aid to students, so often and so justly charged against theological seminaries, this School has greatly reduced its number of announced school airships, and with the cooperation of parishes in the vicinity has instituted a Compensated Church Work plan, by which students who need opportunities...
...this last act were two of the conventional settings in which the wicked and black-browed millionaire was murdered on the eve of his wedding. Of the dozen or two people in the play, nearly every one was suspected at one time or another; but the burden of suspicion fell on a discarded mistress, her two sons, a Kaffir servant and a stout Irishwoman included in the name of comedy. All these and the others were collected in the final scene before the District Attorney, who proceeded to carve out the culprit in time for an eleven o'clock curtain...
...period of the year, the sporting writer is inclined to go out and shoot himself to make news. Hockey and winter track are memories; baseball is yet to be born; athletic interest has reached its lowest ebb. The sporting pages of the daily papers must be read with extreme suspicion at such a time, for all sense of proportion and propriety has been discarded...
There is no one who seems able to identify the strange little mummy that the expedition discovered. For a while there was strong suspicion that it was some relation of Amenhotep III, but his ears seemed a little too large. Undoubtedly, however, he has the Toothmes chin and the Hotshepsut eyebrows, which leads to the shocking conclusion that he may not have been quite legitimate. It seems too bad to bring such a thing to light, particularly after so many years, but the matter must be looked at frankly...
...Turkish Army had not had time to get into action, that no decisive engagements had taken place. The causes for the revolt were obscured, probably by the Turkish censorship. Prime Minister Fethi Bey declined to call it more than a "serious revolt"; but lurking behind the admission is the suspicion that the Kurds are demanding Kurdistan for the Kurds, an echo of the old cry of self-determination. To begin with, they have proclaimed Prince Selim, one of Abdul Hamid's sons, King of Kurdistan, and have also proclaimed themselves as crusaders in the holy cause of Islam against...