Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...FERA employes. Secretary Ickes announced the average cost of each house to be $4,880. Neighborhood observers, telling of useless wells dug and houses badly grouped for the laying of sewers, water mains and electric conduits, suggested that double or triple that figure would be nearer the truth...
...Catholic Government employes who, as members of the National Revolutionary Party, sign documents denying the truth of revealed religion...
...greatest artistic personality of our nation--a man that one can put beside the great Italians and perhaps above any of the French." Of course, dissent will be forthcoming; what about Hogarth? Hogarth "was a propagandist for morals, and the propagandists never even wants to discover the truth; he is in too great a hurry to makes his case against the fools and the wicked, having, as a rule, no idea how like the fools and the wicked are to the wise and good." As for Sir Joshua Reynolds, who "hoped that British Art would take its place...
Theta Phi plans to elect men of "a high ethical conception of the ministerial calling, scholarship and a scholarly attitude toward truth, and distinction in service and achievement." Theta Phi's insignia: a gold key bearing Greek letters and three bars shaped and colored to represent the stripes on the sleeve of a doctor's academic robe. Its membership will be of two classes: students and older churchmen. First two institutions to get student chapters are Colgate-Rochester Divinity School (Rochester, N. Y.) and Southern...
...long been abandoned. When there is no real assurance that deep and erudite works of scholarship give the true spirit of a given period, surely it is unreasonable to expect that celluloidal pageants should feel constrained to do so. "The Iron Duke," although it may wander away from the truth, unwinds a fascinating yarn; its costumes are authentic, thanks to Gaumont, consistently English. The Duchess of Richmond gives a ball for the Allied forces at Brussels, but when a courier gallops up with word that Napoleon has marched his myriad zealots to the city gates, England's finest leave...