Word: half-truth
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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...second premise, that Hughes sentiment in the University is "pronouncedly militaristic and pro-Ally," whereas in the rest of the country it is pro-German, is less than the pro-Greman, is less than the proverbial half-truth. If by militarism he means an adequate state of national preparation against the calamity of war, then he is right. But pro-Ally sentiment is in no manner of means associated with the Hughes cause in Harvard. They may overlap; they are not co-terminous; they surely have no relation. That is a fact so patent that it scarcely needs statement...