Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scholar. It is doubtful if the amount of independent research work done in any undergraduate department can do more than develop the initiative and mental independence of the person involved. Scholarship only becomes dangerous when it centers interest on the piddling detail at the expense of the panorama of truth. Hardly before a man becomes a Ph.D. can he be said to have lost anything of value in the way of breadth...
...Cozzens. And in addition to being convincing, his people have the eminently desirable virtue of being amusing--the combination forming a nice evidence of the author's talent. Their conversation crackles with a verve that is seldom actually attained on Wall or Main or Maple Street, though, in truth, the whole book is pitched in that vivid key, kindly reserved by Providence for fiction...
...Mann protested: "I have already denounced this story as a falsehood. . . . The truth is that this paper [the World] or the Tammany national organization, sent a female detective to my office . . . an attempted frame...
...continued: "For years we have been fighting to preserve Americanism. . . . The Klan has been for years publicly fighting Mr. Smith by the widest possible dissemination of the truth...
Secretary Jardine of Agriculture took note of the Smith speech on farm relief at Omaha and said: "Either Governor Smith is grossly ignorant in the field of practical economics or is deliberately misrepresenting the truth. . . . Let no one be deceived...