Word: cites
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...support of this position you cite the large financial recognition received by dentists and other professional men as compared with that of ministers...
...their labor troubles have thrust them. This the I. C. C. has no power to do, as was sharply suggested by the Senate last month. The barb in the Senate's pending investigation of the I. C. C. (TIME, Feb. 20) is a clause directing the Commissioners to cite statutory authorities for each & every one of their decisions during the past five years wherein "the reasonableness of any rate or rates were in any sense influenced by the competitive advantage" of the producers of one section over another...
...CRIMSON ventures to cite this particular instance, though other gifts of similar limitations might also be used to illustrate the principle involved. This comment should not be taken as a reflection on all conditional gifts on even on most of them to do so would be not only to look into the mouth of a gift horse, but to insist on an X-ray of the molars. But the swimming-pool gymnasium situation is so typical of the exception that this comment is offered with no stinting of gratitude, but rather as a plea for an earlier availability...
WORLDS' ENDS-Jacob Wassermann -Boni & Liveright ($2.50). This is what happens to individuals when their particular worlds turn end for end, says Author Wassermann in effect. He proceeds to cite "case histories": Peasant Adam studied his only son for signs of weak character so long and so truculently that the heir killed himself. The father, remorseful, claimed to have murdered the boy; hung himself. Golovin, voluble Russian revolutionist, had in his power a woman for whom he craved. To her he talked all night about his vicious deeds and cynical philosophy and in the morning left her unharmed, still...
There is more than one way of telling an untruth, but perhaps the most insidious way is that of omission. "The Devil can cite Scripture to his purpose" for this very reason. A statement divorced from its context is often capable of an interpretation that is directly opposed to its real meaning...