Word: whether
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan trial of Fritz Kuhn, leader of the German-American Bund, was a letter from Presidential Aspirant Tom Dewey (see col. 1), in which he remarked that for Fritz Kuhn "the ashcan is the best place." The jury, after eight and a half hours of argument over whether or not Fritz Kuhn was guilty of stealing from his Bund funds, agreed with Mr. Dewey...
Nowadays cheerleading is as much a part of the football show as passing and kicking. Last week, while the cream of the 1939 crop of U. S. footballers wondered whether they would be picked for one of the hundreds of All-America teams (chosen by sportswriters, Greek restaurants, department stores, cinema producers), the cream of college cheerleaders had the same worry: whether they would be picked for this year's All-America cheering squad, to be announced Christmas week...
After these pro-Russian sentiments had appeared in print last week, Bill Spofford was irritated by the invasion of Finland. To protect Leningrad, Russia needed Baltic bases, and Finland might have handed them over quietly. Whether the C. L. I. D. (some 3,000 members) would take the same line when it meets in January, he did not know...
...question has often been raised whether the social sciences are sciences at all. Certainly they occupy a place on the fringe of the physical and biological sciences, from which they must draw much of their nourishment. "Sociology," a term coined about a century ago by the French Philosopher Auguste Comte, has been described as "the science of leftovers"-that is, a science which picks up crumbs spilled from the groaning table of the other social sciences.* But it has also been suggested that sociology be enthroned as the basic social science-a sort of central switchboard which would coordinate...
...take notes on his infants' wailing, coughing, drooling, kicking, stretching, winking, frowning, screaming. "With a fine degree of paternal fervor," Darwin tickled the naked soles of his babies' feet with paper, "tried to look savage" to provoke tears. Purpose of his baby-baiting was to determine whether the instinctive reactions of childhood were similar to the gestures of lower animals...