Word: doubtfully
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Doubt arose whether this record would be officially accepted, not because any wind was blowing but because the racetrack sloped slightly upward, the finish being 30 in. higher than the start. Official objection might be simply that such a track is not absolutely standard, but students of physics found fine food for debate in this proposition: the gravity factor being negligible, it may be that one can run faster up a slight incline since, at each stride, one's feet would strike upsloping ground more quickly than level...
...Though bent with age and practically blind, brother Joseph planned to return to Molokai by airplane. Said he: "Everything goes like a whiz these days, doesn't it? Just like a whiz. No, I regret nothing but the evil in the world and leprosy. A cure for that? I doubt it, doubt it very much...
...institutions] or of teachers of economics in the schools of business or elsewhere. . . . In almost every case of alleged improper activity the individual in question was either a subordinate instructor or connected with the extension department or with some technical day or night school. . . . Certain instructors, while beyond doubt absolutely honest themselves, were lacking in the tact that was necessary or perhaps in an appreciation of the gravity of the situation. Other instructors were obviously naïve enough not fully to comprehend what it was their employers desired...
...Gillett was the only possible obstacle. He said: "Great museums and libraries and collections of pictures and jewels have in the past been purchased by monarchs, who have thereby made their cities celebrated. . . . In this country that has always been left to private individuals. . . . But I have no doubt this expenditure will not only give us some of the rarest and most splendid books in the world but will also stimulate prospective donors. . . . And so, although I think the precedent a bad one, I will not object to the passage of the bill...
There was many a doubt expressed last year concerning the competency of Owen Crosby Philipps, Lord Kylsant, sometimes called "Lord of the Seven Seas," chairman of the huge far-flung Royal Mail Steam Packet Co. which includes among its many steamship lines the White Star. Last year Lord Kylsant was publicly accused of mismanagement by his brother Viscount St. Davids. Royal Mail stock sank swiftly and dangerously, Royal Mail passed its dividend (TIME, Dec. 23). Lord Kylsant, it appeared, had purchased investments in "other than shipping companies." Good-will was not augmented by the knowledge that Lord Kylsant draws...