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...falsehood," bristled Captain Martyn, "a damnable falsehood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Friendly Enemies | 12/14/1925 | See Source »

...student movement in China has many unjustifiable features; but while the stirring of hatred of foreigners is often accomplished by misrepresentation and falsehood, the end in view is primarily justice and freedom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOTS LAYS CHINA'S TROUBLES TO OPIUM, MILITARISM, BOLSHEVISM, AND IGNORANCE | 11/6/1925 | See Source »

...knowing-as more constant readers of the Graphic know -that this sheet itself is not always above judicious juggling of news, of photographs, placed the editorial in his pocket as a talisman against falsehood, trudged back along the wagon-road to his once-cheerful kitchen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Prank | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Master's life. It might be supposed that, with an autobiography whose avowed intent was "unadorned veracity," the private life of the composer would not be a hard matter to probe. Unhappily, Mr. Newman finds that, far from being a frank revelation, Mein Leben falls just short of actual falsehood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wagner | 11/24/1924 | See Source »

...membership in that ancient and honorable institution of Trial by Jury; to lay before them the duties, privileges and prerogatives of a juror, to open their minds to the fallacies of human testimony, the whys and wherefores of intentional perjury, the methods by which truth can be distinguished from falsehood and exaggerations can be reduced to their proper proportions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jury Duty | 11/10/1924 | See Source »

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