Word: truest
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...truest way to measure what the Palestine war had cost thus far was not by its casualties but by its D.P.s. A war in which one side was fighting to make a home for refugees had created some 400,000 new refugees-the homeless and destitute Arabs and Jews of the disputed parts of Palestine...
...added to Dialogues in Limbo, a book first published in 1926 and re-issued last week. It is one of the few of his books that Santayana himself now finds pleasure in rereading. On these dialogues, as a philosopher, he is willing to stand or fall: "They are the truest interpretation of my philosophy. If anyone understands them, he understands me." In prose so immaculately manicured that only the polish is apparent, Santayana descends to the oblivion of limbo and seeks out his beloved, smooth-talking heroes: Socrates, Democritus, Alcibiades, Dionysius, Aristippus. The litmus with which he tests the worth...
...thousands who went out of their way for a glimpse could clearly explain what attracted them. A red-faced working woman, carrying her shopping bag, had the truest answer. "Look at them," she said. "How young and happy and well-bred they are. C'est du baume pour le coeur-it does your heart good...
TIME'S determination to tell the news, whenever it can, through people, is as strong as ever. "Human interest" is not only the most interesting kind of news, it is also the "truest," i.e., the nearest approach to the way events actually happen. In casual conversation, people sometimes reveal more about the news than in set speeches or ponderous books. Millions of words have been written in the past 15 years about the personality of Franklin Roosevelt. In March 1933, the week he was inaugurated President, TIME printed a brief quotation from his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt. It summed...
...only does the country need patriotic support, but she needs that support which can plan for the future, can discipline and prepare itself for the discipline and service to come . . . The truest patriotism is after all that which lays aside self-gratification in any form and seeks intelligently the path of greatest usefulness." (April...