Word: truth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Reverend S. F. Gilman, 1811, wrote in such fanciful terms of Harvard shining as a star "calm rising through change and through storm," he was nearer the cold, stellar truth than he knew. For there is a star, or rather an asteroid, bearing the name of John Harvard through the outer reaches of the universe...
...normal men and women have an appreciation for truth and beauty, and art, after all, is nothing but the expression of truth in beauty and beauty in truth...
...India came a strange tale last week, a new Mowgli* story, a Romulus and Remus anecdote, with the genders changed. Bishop Pakenham Walsh of Calcutta, back in London from a visit to the mission of the Rev. Jal Singh at Midnapur, Bengal, told the tale and vouched for its truth. Some months ago the Rev. Jal Singh was told, by the wide-eyed inhabitants of an isolated village in his parish, to avoid a certain path into the hills. It was, they assured him, haunted by demons. Strong in his faith, and armed against wild beasts, the Rev. Jal Singh...
...truth, bowered in lovely green trees and shrubs...
...been said, and with as much truth as is usually inherent in generalities, that England has attained to her greatest artistic heights not under her kings, but under her queens. Whether this be a fact or not, it is undeniable that the pinnacle of English literature at least was attained during the years under "Good Queen Bess...