Word: lied
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LeCorbeilller is not content, however, to let his philosophical speculation on science lie dormant in back issues of the Monthly. Three times a week his short, rebust figure parades up and down in a a Byerly Hall lecture room filled with scientific neophytes enrolled in the General Education offering, Natural Sciences 1. Bent over so far that he appears to be sniffing out his path, he turns frequently to gaze at his flock with what one student called "the friendliest damn eyes I ever...
While presenting his credentials to President Truman at the White House, General Kaiser repeated the 17th Century aphorism* about an ambassador being an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country, added that he preferred to believe that an envoy was dispatched to speak the truth. Replied the President: "A great pleasure...
...Trygve Lie makes a strong plea for greater support...
...good deal of the trouble connected with Washington really isn't his fault. Misguided legend-makers foisted such monstrosities on five generations of Americans as "Father, I cannot tell a lie," and "First in war, first in peace . . ." Those harmless little tidbits are setups for prep school cynics and picayunish parodyists. But unfortunately the well-meaning myth-manglers have escaped their due punishment. Poor old George Washington takes it all, and he's been taking it in varying doses for 150 years. It's a credit to him that he has borne it all so patiently, and that the date...
...second TB detecting squad will join the fight at Eliot House Friday, supporting the Memorial Church unit which will remain at lie present life until the start of March...