Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Virgin Birth, he believes, may some day be proved biologically possible. An individual so produced would probably be a male, with half the normal number of chromosomes. Of the propriety of investigating virgin birth, Dr. Barnes says: "Reverence and truth can always be combined, unless the object of our reverence should happen to be untrue...
...Anglo-Catholics protested, have continued to protest. As a churchman, Bishop Barnes is as low as a sole. During one church quarrel he exclaimed that he would "not be driven to Tennessee or to Rome." To him they both represent "degenerate religious thought," one a "refusal to admit the truth of man's evolution from lower forms of life," the other a "belief that spiritual presence can be attached to, or reside in, inanimate objects...
...scarcely lies in chastisement with a presidential umbrella. The Board of Education was equally unhappy in its strategy. Its fairness in dismissing a teacher had been questioned by a large number of his fellows. He had been dismissed allegedly for incompetence and falsifying his attendance record. As to the truth of the charges we have no knowledge, but the fact that the victim is chairman of the Teachers' Committee to Protect Salaries raises at least some unfortunate suspicions. Many teachers asked for a public trial for the victim--a reasonable request--and when this was refused by the board, began...
Thus last week the newspaper advertisements of Gimbels, big Manhattan department store, bitter rival of famed Macy's. Astonished newsreaders were not left in the dark about such deprecating sales talk. Accompanying each layout was a statement headlined: GIMBELS TELLS THE WHOLE TRUTH! Excerpts...
...years on end we at Gimbels have been thinking that we were telling the truth. . . . But what we have been telling was, so to speak, 'commercial truth'. . . . We told you that a certain portable phonograph was light, that it had a good tone. carried so many records, came in several colors, and was very inexpensive. Those statements were absolutely accurate. We failed to tell you that because the phonograph was light and was inexpensive, the motor was not strong enough to give more than a few seasons' wear. Hereafter we will tell you this. In other words...