Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...examination period revives the old suspicion that in drawing up an examination, the professor frequently makes every effort to pick out such questions, and phrase them in such a way, as to thwart every effort of the Widow to spot exam questions. The result has been that at times the examination develops into a keen battle of wits between the Widow on one hand, and the professor on the other. With two such old and experienced antagonists in the fray, the student, and especially one direct from preparatory school, stands little chance of making any kind of a showing...
Widespread was the opinion that the Roosevelt tax plan had been sent up largely as a "trial balloon" which the country's disapproval had promptly punctured. Another suspicion was that it had been started to create a popular backfire for a sales...
...while carrying Moslem pilgrims to Mecca (TIME, June 2, 1930); and the brand new Georges Philippar, burned and sunk at sea last May with a loss of 52 lives while returning from her maiden voyage to the Orient. Since French Indo-Chinese Communists had openly threatened the Georges Philippar, suspicion of incendiarism was reasonable, but the French Government, though it investigated, has kept all details a state secret...
...deal now passed to the Porra who promptly raided the home of Dr. Cuervo Rubio and arrested Angel Alvarez Fernandez, a student, on suspicion in connection with the September murder of Dr. Bello. Student Alvarez also "attempted to escape," was shot through the head...
Mental disease is a vast public problem. It has become a question of whether to> let people die cancerous and sane, or witless from suspicion of cancer. Cancero-phobia is a serious psychosis...