Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that He prefers the recent innovation?" The Oxford and Webster dictionaries give preference to "ay-men," Webster stipulating that when sung it should be "ah." Stemming from the Hebrew through Greek, Latin, French and Old English, "amen" means "truly" or "verily"; "Be it so really!"; "It is so in truth"; "finis." Europeans and Russians all use the same word. Its liturgical use by congregations began in apostolic times. Jews and Mohammedans say amen. In Revelations it is used as a title of Christ, meaning "the faithful and true witness." Christ said it to affirm His utterances and no others...
Andrew Hamilton, the Clarence Darrow of his day, came up from Philadelphia for the trial, serving without pay. Mind undimmed at nearly 80, he limped into court and offered to prove the truth of his client's charges against Governor Cosby...
...drunken picnic at the seashore Lance caught his brother Michael making love to his wife Fayne: in an instant he had killed Michael. Next instant he regretted it: and if quick-witted Fayne had not made it seem an accident, the murder had been out. To keep the truth from killing his mother, and to save Lance. Fayne persuaded him not to confess what he had done. But his atonement was too much for him: she saw him going slowly mad before her eyes. When at last he threw himself over a cliff Fayne was not surprised, would...
...Professor Mercier defines humanism, and he does a very good job of defining something to which he is attached, without sentiment and without heroics. He could not, in truth, be a good humanist otherwise...
...deal to say against Rousseau, and that it was furnishing a great deal of amusement to those who found Mr. Mencken's critical style amusing. Humanism, as Professor Mercier demonstrates but does not say, is a philosophy and an attitude which by its nature must be as indifferent as truth itself to how much of and how successfully the popular attention has been captured...