Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sterilization as a weapon against political dissenters is a serious threat, if not an actual fact, at present in Germany. For this reason we believe Mr. Miller's letter, though an excellent job, wad ill-advised in choosing sterilization as the reductie ad absurdum of reactionary terrorism. Truth is stranger than fletion, isn't it, Mr. Miller Of course, Mr. Miller is aware that adveeating sterilization of political prisoners is simply an indication of the sense of impotence of its advocates...
...Truth in drug, food and cosmetic advertising but: "Any attempt by government authority to impose a censorship in any form upon advertising would be an inexcusable intrusion into private business affairs...
...been said that nothing can be taught. This is but a half-truth, for unquestionably the ability to stimulate the novice is the mission of the teacher. Without that ability the instructor is but a pedagogue...
...compensation for injuries not even remotely connected with the War," and it then proceeds to discuss the Senate's action in overriding the President's veto on the apparent assumption that only such limited ''weeding out" had been done. Nothing could be further from the truth. Had this been the extent to which Administration action went on veterans' compensation there never would have been a back-fire in Congress, nor any public demand for restoration of the benefits...
...this definitive portrait of the pitch lake of Trinidad: ". . . The real pitch lake is simply about 200 asphalt tennis courts, in very bad condition, set in the midst of some gently undulating green meadows." But he usually saves his penetrating glances for the scenery of ideas: "The truth is that our so-called wars of interest are really wars of passion, like those in Central America. . . . Nationalism is the justificatory philosophy of unnecessary and artificial hatred. . . . Under the Nazis, for example, every German is made to take his daily dose of what I may call Nordic...