Word: suspicions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This overpowering suspicion is extremely questionable. It is just as reasonable to fear that the Dean will abscond with student funds, or violate any other official regulation. If the Dean had regarded the Student Council proposal as an infringement on her prerogatives, she certainly would never have accepted it in the first place. The fact that there has been a case where information regarding political affiliation was given out in the past has no present significance. There was no ruling then; there is one now, and the RAYD has no grounds for questioning the Dean's integrity...
What Harrison claims to know is that the admirable Captain Kelway is dealing with the enemy. This is incredible in a man like Kelway, who was wounded at Dunkirk and has responsible duties at the War Office. But Harrison is clever; the drop of suspicion that he injects remains to corrode a happy love affair...
...Dewey was at pains to disarm any suspicion that he still had ambitions for the presidency. He was glad to be in Washington for a visit, he declared. "At one time last year, I expected to come for a longer stay. I was under the impression, which was shared by a great many others, that I had a clear call to duty. But last November it turned out to be some other kind of noise. Instead ... I have been graduated at a comparatively early age to the role of elder statesman, which someone has aptly defined as a politician...
...exact cause of tooth decay has always puzzled dentists. Researchers have recently looked with the deepest suspicion at Lactobacillus acidophilus, a germ found in saliva. Thus far, the most practical weapon against the germ, which apparently attacks the teeth from the outside, has been fluorine, introduced into the enamel as the teeth are being formed...
Many musicians felt it was just as well; it would hardly have been a happy affair. Said one: "Everybody feels under suspicion . . . There is very little conversation ... It's frozen the situation...