Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human race is by no means young. ... It is the inheritor of a very wide experience. It has located a great many fixed stars in the firmament of truth...
Everything that Brisbane said is true but still there are many people in this country who believe that Harvard had a good reason for rejecting the offer. They felt that there was something behind the refusal. And these prophets were correct, for now the truth of the whole incident is made public. It seems that Dr. Mears had added one condition to his offer. The stipulation was that the money should be used at all times for instruction in accordance with his own teachings. Harvard did not care to have its hands tied for years to come, and so rightly...
...that the amendment ought to be forthwith repealed. The argument that the youngest generation now alive will reap the benefits of prohibition is not without plausibility. The notion that the liquor evils as well as the crime wave have been over-emphasized by the press contains its grain of truth...
...Olson, he of George Olson and His Music, speaks more truth than he imagines when he says that "university courses should be lengthened to eight years for the increasing number of students who want to matriculate in jazz". With no satirical intention he has bequeathed his innocent journalistic palaver with an ironic note. His plea is for more vital trombonists: but he incidentally lays bare the anatomy of jazz...
...what is at the moment the sentiment of the writer and although they may be nothing but expressions of that fleeting sentiment and may violate all the rules of reality, to say nothing of good taste, they are for that reason valuable. But to go the undergraduate for the truth-whatever that is-about himself and his fellows is as wise as to seek advice from as infant on the subject of the care and feeding of children. One is amused but one gains little information except that of an intensely subjective and irrelevant nature...