Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rank and file of Harvard students can hardly be expected to concur with this view and suspicion has already been aroused against what seems to be an artificially imposed British cast to the plans for Lowell House. The difference in social habits and the aims of higher education existing in the two countries precludes the possibility of any wholesale grafting of England's educational system upon that of the United States. Undoubtedly there are some features of the English system which may be useful in an American College, but just what these are can be more soundly determined...
...expansion were once what all the young ladies of the time covertly admired, is currently to be seen on Broadway, mature, heavy, but still indubitably heroic. As a police inspector he is forced to inquire into the double murder of his own wife and her paramour. For a while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall...
...Harvard, especially, is the long, sinister finger of suspicion pointed, for a car bearing a Massachusetts license was seen to drive off after several men allegedly loaded the vehicle with a large, bulky parcel which they carried out of the building in which the each singles are located. Princeton and Yale undergraduates are also variously reported to be implicated in the roberry. On the New Haven campus, in fact, the university authorities are said to have threatened expulsion for any Eli undergraduates found to be implicated in the removal of the Blue shrine...
...spurious telegrams from various sections of country that the disappearance of this last vestige of an old Yale tradition was an undergraduate prank. That the Eli authorities regard it as such is shown by the fact that detectives are already at work on the campi of the universities under suspicion...
...size well below London's great Midland Bank. This unfortunate development was followed by many wild rumors, so widespread as to call forth from Mr. Mitchell a denial that he contemplated resignation or that his directors were at odds with him. Rumors had been based partly on the suspicion of a difference of opinion concerning the calling of loans by National City branches...