Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Every one is asking how long it can last. But Mr. Laval proves the truth of the proverb that threatened men live long. Some say he is lucky, but his luck has recently been that of a man who thinks quicker than his opponents and is always one move ahead...
...those elements even in our day which still cast a shadow over the precepts of brave love, freedom, tolerance, honest kindness and the simple search for truth find further hinderance by this another commemoration of the season which gave the Man and his philosophy birth. And as the wish for the Christmas season leaves our lips may it have less of that idiomatic insincerity which the materialism of our age so easily breeds; and ring real for a truly "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year...
...fault of modern thought in regard to theology, continued Dr. Temple, is an attempt to make a comparative study of religion. Psychology in particular tends to do this. "It is wrong to make a sharp distinction between truth and falsehood, for in every religion Christian or pagan there is some element of truth...
...speech closed with a great buttering of Japan as Sir Samuel alluded to the current reduction of North China to the status of a Japanese puppet (see p. 22) in these terms: "I can only regard as unfortunate that events should have taken place which, whatever the actual truth of the matter may be, lend color to the belief that Japanese influence is being exerted to shape Chinese internal political developments and administrative arrangements. Anything which tends to create this belief can only do harm to the prestige of Japan and hamper the development, which we all desire...
...overrun by savages but in my dream it was most fair. And I sat in a room A in a building which looked like a storage house but which was called Emerson. And it was exactly at noon. And there I did sit as a Vagabond in search of truth; and did hear a most learned and interesting professor, a Dr. Prall, squeak with enthusiasm over Hobbes, a man of my own time and country. And, as I recall, I did delight very much to hear so much about my century; for I agree with the professor's remarks that...