Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hero. Having sworn to tell the whole truth, and promised to defend himself when and as necessary, Oliver Naquin in the witness chair produced a hero whom the press had overlooked: Chief Electrician's Mate Lawrence James Gainor of Honolulu. Forty-year-old Lawrence Gainor was on duty near one of the Squalus' two battery compartments. While the after compartments were flooding, Lawrence Gainor braved a fiery arc, crawled between the melting, short-circuited cables, disconnected the switches, and so prevented fire which undoubtedly would have cut off more of the Squalus' crew from rescue. His performance...
...group of summer campers near Detroit: "I believe those three submarine disasters were caused by sabotage. It is all a scheme by financial war makers to get this country into war. Of course they'll blame Germany but I don't think Germany is responsible. The real truth is that wars are over with, and the financial war makers don't know...
TIME'S piece [June 5] "Springtime in Europe" under Foreign News demonstrates in unique fashion the truth in the old adage that good work - within even such exacting limits as are set by its almost incommensur able weekly journalistic aim - brings out the master...
...Deal public power projects and taxes, which threaten the income from the Duke endowment, largely invested in the Duke North Carolina power companies. To critics like Abraham Flexner, who characterized activities of the Duke Foundation as "a conspicuous . .. abuse of private power," he retorts: "Not a particle of truth...
...Only 28% would tell the truth if doing so meant hurting someone's feelings...