Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Embroidering a now time-worn thesis, and making no attempt to reveal his personal views on the truth of its hypothesis, President Angell of Yale, in the current Harpers, suggests ways and means by which the over-population which according to many now threatens the colleges, might be avoided. It would have been more satisfactory to the majority of his readers if Mr. Angell had first made a decision as to the legitimacy of the argument and had then gone on to defend his claims: instead he has nicely side stepped any discussion of whether or not too many people...
...interested, but we do not believe this is necessary as we believe that this attitude as expressed in this story was unintentional or was probably written by a person who was guessing at the facts instead of going to the extent of getting at the truth before committing such libelous statement...
...ease at once. He treated me as if he were my father indeed. He rested his elbow on the large table between us and spoke to me in soft paternal tones. So I rested my elbow on the table also and answered without fear or re-straint." The truth of the Mayor's description became more and more obvious as bits of the conversation were related. Said the Pope: "But you are a very young man to be Mayor of such a large metropolis!" "But I am not as young as I look," said the Mayor...
...Governor McCray was vague as to his future, the New York Times was not vague. Said the Times: "While in office he was indicted for a get-rich-quick-scheme. ... If he will go before the grand jury and tell the whole truth [about corrupt Indiana politics], regardless of whom it may affect and whatever it may cost ... he will have performed a public service that will do much to wipe out the stain upon his own name." Indeed soon after his release, the Marion Grand Jury† planned to call Mr. McCray to testify on the subject...
...empaneled from men who have devoted a lifetime to weighing the evidence. To the best of my ability I have avoided, in laying before you the evidence on which our verdict was found, the role of special pleader, being content to follow Darwin's own example-Let the truth speak for itself!" Having congratulated the president upon a masterful pronouncement, British science listened to further addresses...