Word: honestly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...officers of the Government to act. The forceful parts of the report are those upholding the right and the advantage of public discussion of the objects of a war and the methods of conducting it, and pointing out the weakness of persecution as a "means for extirpating or repressing honest error, however grave and dangerous the error may be." The report condemns the dismissal of "a distinguished man of science," meaning Professor Cattell, as involving "a disregard of all the essential distinctions" upon which the report insists. --New York Evening Post
...peace proposals which have come from the Teutonic allies had come from nations alive to their international obligations, jealous of their national integrity, scrupulous as to their general honor, the world might be cheered by the hope that, presently, when the scales had fallen from deluded but honest eyes, we might reach a basis which would offer the poor comfort of a gradual rapprochement. But the Teutonic allies are not such nations--not any of them. They are, together, notorious for the lack of the things mentioned above. So, behind each offer camouflaged as Peace, hides the grinning skeleton...
...grade is never a thing to be proud of but it is sometimes a cause for sympathy. We are wont to condole with the man who fails in a course provided he has done honest work. There are, however, some courses in which failure comes from loafing and no other cause. Military Science, both 1 and 2, come under this heading. The sole requisite for a passing grade in these courses is to attend drills and lectures conscientiously and without any other work a C is assured...
...only criterion we can insist upon is that we shall know the facts and that we shall be sincere. We should be very sure that it is the truth by which our hearts are stirred. Once we are sure of our facts we should ask only to feel as honest, self-respecting human beings, neither trailing humbly in the wake of an Emperor nor pretending to be holier than God made us. --New York Tribune...
...Americans in the Mediterranean; and the Austrian ambassador, Dumba, and many of his subordinates, plotted against the peace, security and neutrality of the United States--right here on our own shores. There are hundreds of thousands of Austro-American citizens in the United States, who earn their living by honest work, and desire no trouble with anybody; most of them probably are Slavs and Hungarians who have no reason to love the Austrian Empire; they must accept the consequences of retaining their citizenship with a power which is at present in all essentials a military department of Germany, and Germany...