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Word: truth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charging him with deliberately deceiving the nation. Wrote Political Pundit Frank R. Kent in the Baltimore Sun: "In a normal administration no department head would have dared present such a report. He would have known it would be analyzed at once, the joker discovered and the pretense punctured. . . . The truth is Mr. Farley spent $52,000,000 more last year than he took in and his 'surplus' is obtained only by not charging as expenses some $64,000,000. . . . Having performed this unprecedented trick with the figures, Mr. Farley piously says in his report: 'For the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Farley Surplus | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Murphy & Co.'s President Grayson Mallet-Prevost Murphy, Wartime lieutenant colonel, snorted: "A fantasy! . . . and I don't believe there is a word of truth in it with respect to Mr. McGuire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plot Without Plotters | 12/3/1934 | See Source »

There is only one other thing to be said--the presentation of an old St. Mark's motto, "Agi quod agis" is the way it reads, "Do well what you do." This, I realize, is a heresy among Harvard men; and yet it has a certain truth in it. If we are going to play football, and if we are going to charge large prices for the privilege of watching it, and if we intend to combat teams of superior calibre, we must do it well. Speaking from personal experience, I never objected to rigorous training rules, long practices, early...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Agi Quod Agis" | 12/1/1934 | See Source »

...around which an honest, effective, force for good can be builded that I write. Therefore, with all the earnestness that I can muster, I urge you to grasp the opportunity which is yours. If the opportunity is utilized, you shall have a new birth of freedom, but only the truth can make you free. V. H. Kramer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "New Freedom" | 11/30/1934 | See Source »

...Merely a modern of the old truth that when a is too old it is now, and that there is nothing new under...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theta Sigma Phi Indian a University | 11/30/1934 | See Source »

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