Word: dubious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several very dubious telegrams being received at Yale point obviously to the fact that the disappearance of the fence is due to the equally traditional spirit of the college prank. Undergraduates are notoriously poor judges of the effects of what they are pleased to consider practical jokes and it is most improbable that the persons responsible for the purloining of the famous Yale antique had any conception of the really serious furore which the event is reported to have caused in New Haven. It is certainly to be hoped that those who consider themselves directly offended by the incident will...
Coach Jackson Cannell with the assistance of three former members of the coaching staff, directed the team through various routine work. During the early part of the afternoon the team went through a blacking and tackling practice, as Coach Cannell is still a little dubious about the powers of his eleven in this line. In the meantime the Gray team, under the supervision of Swede Young storm, a former Dartmouth All-American, was concentrating on various Harvard forward and lateral pass plays...
...these men expect to accomplish anything, they have before them a difficult task. Free education to all is admittedly a commendable idea, but the present method of carrying it out is of dubious merit. Formulated by men of democratic principles, the present system is an example of democracy carried too far. Proceeding on the assumption that all men are created equal, and should therefore receive equal doses of education, the founders of American public schools are necessarily constrained to keep scholastic standards down to the level of the lowly, but unfortunately ample, ranks of the barren-witted...
...high prices created by Sāo Paulo's artificial restraint of trade. As these new plantations have come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until today the Government of President Washington Luis is saddled with a stupendous hoard of coffee supposed to exceed 13 million bags -as much...
...much has been said about the significance of the intercollegiate athletic field as a factor in social understanding that it is not to be wondered if a justly tired public long ago became dubious and raised its hand in protest. Considerable exaggeration undoubtedly in many instances gives rise to a far too optimistic view towards meetings which are often more objective spectacles breeding little mutual understanding. In an atmosphere tuned up to the scale of fifty thousand spectators it becomes increasingly more convincing for the sceptic to smile away the mention of a genuine relationship between the two participating student...