Word: lied
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the American public is very glad that Commander Byrd is both American and a Nordic. For there is in those facts further proof that in Americanism and Nordicism lie germs of greatness which never take on alien soil. But there is sufficient reason why at this time true pride should be expressed that in an age so mechanical as to be morose, so intricate as to lose its intrigue one human has enough of the joie de vivre to wish to risk...
This poll like all others is after all a mere compilation of figures. And there are still those who will always protest that figures lie. But surely they, at least in this case, graph emphatically the persistent flow of distaste among sane and thinking people which is now moving about the halls of legislation and the courts of justice...
...sufficient violence to move buildings eight inches in the island's principal settlement, Hilo, on the east coast. In the mahogany and sandalwood forests and sugar plantations under Mauna Loa's great flanks, damage was extensive, though for the most part the lava followed its old paths, which lie arid and deserted...
...mind to look at a subject in the large, even at the risk of gaining false effects. It is interesting to compare, for instance, the political condition of the nations where general education is most common with that of nations where education has received less attention. If the figures lie, if they mis-relate cause and effect, they are at least pleasant to contemplate...
...that one is right and the other wrong would be--in the present case--quit silly. After all, charity begins at home. But the truth of the matter might appear to lie in a synthesis of the two views. Prohibition may have helped--but not enough to justify its--function. To this probably neither would agree. The reformation prohibitional like the reformation protestant often befogs eyes otherwise very clear. Yet to add words to such a superfluity of verbiage as has already developed at Washington is certainly futile. Time and the taste of man eventually effect much. Reformers notwithstanding...