Word: forthright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three days about "The Church and Economic Life," the conferees issued a report on the church's duty to its neighbors, the factory and the farm. Much of the report was a watered-down version of England's famed Malvern Conference findings in 1941. But a few forthright statements showed how Christian principles can provide an area of agreement for the economic antagonists of industrial society...
Parson Button, 46, is a forthright, husky man who looks more like a vice president than a clergyman. As he sees it, his first duty-"or, rather, privilege"-will probably be helping out small, impoverished New England churches of all denominations. The good Baptist Smith brothers explain the anomalous Button job thus: "We spend lots of time trying to figure out ways of helping the community and the state. We are employing an efficiency expert in religion just the same as we'd employ any other efficiency expert. We don't expect to sell, any more shoes because...
...limp, ineffectual men who foregather periodically to offer noble, impractical suggestions to universities which receive them in stony silence. Actually, educators are capable of saying things that need listening to and the conclusions of last week's conference including Dean Emeritus Roscoe Pound-which met at Princeton, were bright, forthright, and in large measure need acting on. Their big, blunt theme is that the world's universities are "strongholds of nationalism," that, "so long as this is true, universities actually can unwittingly promote war," and that "they should have one responsibility above all-to take the lead in helping nations...
...Norway's Overland, TIME'S thanks for his forthright defense...
...test public reaction to federal aid for the private colleges. It has been construed as the first word of surrender sent up from the proud fortress of the endowed colleges, calling for outside aid in the training of future generations of professional men. Harvard's president demonstrates forthright honesty when he affirms that the ranks of the professions must be filled with a greater cross-section of America's intellectual wealth. If the true social views of education is to be instilled in the citadel of privilege that higher education continues to be, this view must be enlarged to include...