Word: candor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beat the Dutch control, led by Sir Leander S. Jameson, the administrator of Rhodesia, associate of Rhodes in this and other enterprises. As the biggest foreign mine-owner in the Transvaal, Rhodes was implicated. As Premier of the neighboring colony, he was deeply embarrassed, some said disgraced. With fine candor he accepted his responsibility for what had happened, resigned his office, set off for Rhodesia, an undeveloped portion of Africa up country, where he labored before his health broke and he went back to Cape Town to die, to build into the empire the colony that bears his name...
...with great respect to my Republican friends, whom I love and revere, and whose candor, sincerity and honesty I concede without reserve, those who manage their campaigns are the most ingenious creators of political scarecrows the world has ever known...
...instructed further to express the confidence that this communication will be received by the American Government in the same spirit of friendliness and candor in which it is made...
...facilities, appreciation and moral support that are the life blood of scientific achievement. Dr. Hall's last book, Confession of a Psychologist (Appleton) is the unique revelation of the mind of one of America's greatest men-at 77 years of age, a mind of complete candor, fearlessness, humanity...
Said Senator Borah: "Charges are made that enemies of this Government in Russia . . . are seeking to organize different units of individuals for the purpose of placing the red flag in place of the Stars and Stripes. . . . Then I asked in all candor, what is the Department of Justice doing? Why are not the men who are cooperating with our foreign enemies, the agents and their representatives in this country, arrested, indicted, convicted and sentenced to the electric chair without the benefit of clergy...