Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When you ask a New England farmer what he thinks is the substance of a college education, he will answer "Book Larnin'". That response will not be far from the truth. Certain modernistic notions to the contrary not with standing, reading comprises the greater part of our waking hours in college, and books of one sort or another are the most evident concomitants of the academic atmosphere. But in spite of our private shelves of volumes, in spite of our wonderful library with its millions of tomes, its acreage of information--there is one wholly extraneous class of printed matter...
...wrote another ironic column: "I'll grant that he has the courage, but I also insist that he is more or less simpleminded, or he would not have permitted his head to grow to such large proportions. It may be treason for me to say so, but the truth is that Lindbergh has had more extraordinary luck than anyone in modern history...
...reply which Gilbert Smith received last week from Washington brought him no nearer the truth. If not in fact evasive, it was a reply which waived the question and offered admonition in place of enlightenment. The reply said...
...name in your subscriber's lists. I am not a subscriber. I read the copies sent to my boss who is a regular subscriber. My secretarial position gives me an indisputable right to read his copies before he does. Of course, sometimes he seems not to grasp the truth of this technicality and becomes somewhat "peeved," most emphatically stating that your "mail clerk is an ass." My personal opinion is that your mail clerk is O. K. I receive my boss's copies of TIME within a reasonable time and if my boss gets his copy always...
...been said, and so often and so insistently that it has become platitudinous, that the present age is an age of questions. As in all platitudes there is at least a foundation of truth in this remark. The scientific spirit which has pervaded the western world for the last century and more with its tireless exploration of the unknown has become the basic element in modern intellectual life...