Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presidency of the International Congress of Psychology at Yale last week and witty, despite length, his speech of welcome. Said he: "In so far as psychologists are concerned, America was [prior to the last 50 years] like Heaven, for there was not a damned soul there." Another Cattell truism: ''The motions of the solar system since its beginning are less complicated than the play of a child for a day." A Cattell social irritant, which excited dark newspaper head lines: "The objects of the sciences are more ideal than the objects of the churches; their practices are more Christian. When...
...Canada fears that the U. S. will secure control of most of the St. Lawrence power sites, with no chance for Canada to increase its share to meet future needs. Said one Canadian newspaper: "What Uncle Sam has he holds. Our whole relationship with our big neighbor proves that truism." Radio. "Sheer presumption," declared Arthur 0. Smith, Canadian speaker to a Washington Rotary Club last week, was the U. S. Radio Commission's assignment of a mere handful of radio wavelengths to Canada. The prediction was made that the Canadian Government would soon kick over the U. S. distribution...
...truism that hands are as expressive as faces and it is true that they are a more certain means of identification. Nonetheless, because it is easy to see, a face is the more convenient link between a person and his name. So convenient indeed that it is regarded as the index, not to a person's name alone, but even to his character; faces, in fact, are almost always mistaken for persons. Hence when a proud man wishes to leave something of his pride, after death, above the humble dust; when a famed man wishes to allow his admirers...
...Stimson-Hammond point: Let the Filipinos revise their land and corporation laws so as to permit the introduction of U. S. capital and management. Contrary to custom, even the brashest U. S. liberals were slow to cry "Wall Street" on this occasion. Reason: Statesman Stimson adroitly emphasized the truism that political independence which Filipinos so crave is nowadays synonymous with economic independence...
...become a truism to speak of America as the wealthiest nation in the world. But the philanthropic disposal of that wealth, in part at least, has taken place in many lands and for many humanitarian purposes. Funds have been organized to aid the cause of world peace and international amity; others, such as the recent bequest for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, have been put at the service of cultural relationships. Still other awards promote American ideals and business standards...