Word: suspicion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...university which has already incurred scholarly suspicion by the closing of its library cannot afford to permit a temporary situation, easily misinterpreted, to become permanent. Both economy and the difficulties of choice have a limit, and as a vital scholarly need must limit the first, so should three years have limited the second. Under Professors de Wulf and Gilson scholastic philosophy filled a prominent place in the course list; that place should not be vacant much longer...
...police station, Dillinger, identified by fingerprints, growled: "I'll be the laughing stock of the country. How did I know that a hick town police force would ever suspicion me." He and his friends, along with their women folk, Mary Kinder, Opal Long, Anne Martin, were clapped into jail, guarded by 15 armed men while police checked over five machine guns, $26,000 in cash, $12,000 in jewels, six bullet-proof vests, all found in the suspicious luggage. A Justice of the Peace held them in bail of $100,000 each...
Quite possibly they were. France fears Nazi penetration into Rumania and looks with utmost suspicion on the blue-swastikaed Iron Guard of M. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, mystic and fanatical "Rumanian Hitler." His slogan: "Jesus, King and country...
...many undergraduates the suspicion that Mr. Conant thinks of the tutorial system as nothing but an "educational panacea" will offer small grounds for acclaim. But there are few who will deny the clear implication of the report that Harvard stands in need of better material for her faculty. Harvard's faculty today contains too many men who are neither great teachers nor great scholars. The figures whose names once made the University Catalogue read like the roster of a national academy of learning, are fading rapidly into the past, and their successors do not fall gracefully into the heroic molds...
...wife with infidelity when she bore him twin sons who were in his eyes as different as Esau and Jacob. She admitted bedding with a neighbor. Everyone to whom Farmer Peddie talked declared that the idea of twins having different fathers was scientifically preposterous. For six years his suspicion of divided paternity rankled. Finally, Peddie found doctors who would swear in court that unlike twins were alwavs conceived from separate ova and sperms, usually simultaneously, occasionally hours apart, that it was biologically possible for the ova to be fertilized...