Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...school composition. "The Friend," a sonnet, though not quite musical and at the end not quite clear, may be called a "lovable" poem for its fine spirit and its unpretentious truth. The other poem, "The West," shows in the rhythm experience and some skill; but "meadowland" and "hinterland" make dubious rhyme, and "hinterland" is dubious English. Such verses, also...
...that they were able to offer Hans Wagner a fabulous sum to play for them. Although he refused, being unwilling to associate with such an unscrupulous body, these wielders of the shears and paste-pot will undoubtedly pull of some equally delicate bit of delicious humor to maintain their dubious reputation. It is rumored that F. Beets Boodle, notorious in sporting circles, and a former Philadelphia star, will attempt to fill the gap between second and third base, while the unearned increment will be devoted to pumping the water out of the new cyclone cellar in front of Randolph...
Holy Cross started out this year with a dubious outlook. Six of last year's exceptional team had left, including Odrain, their best pitcher. With only three yeterans in college, a team was gradually built up out of new material and is now developing rapidly. Their record this spring has been good, with victories over Trinity, 7-6, Wesleyan, 7-0, Georgetown, 1-0, and the strong Williams team, 11-8, while they have lost two games to Princeton's variable nine, 2-3 and 0-4. Last year Harvard lost both games to Holy Cross...
...recent years both in Cambridge and away the home team has repeatedly been entirely rattled by the well meant and strenuous endeavors of its own partisans. The bad effect is due to two factors: the first, to the feeling of the players that their partisans are over anxious and dubious of the ability of the players to do what is expected of them; and second, to the incessant noise, which has much the same confusing effect as a boiler shop, or a train in a tunnel, so that at the time when a man should be devoting...