Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This statement seems to imply that the Department of the Classics is somewhat of a laggard in the attempt to combine its own field with other related fields in a general program of humanism. The exact opposite is the truth. The first combined field of the sort described was not History and Literature but "Literature," in which either Greek or Latin is combined with some Modern Language. This plan was initiated by members of the Departments of the Classics and Modern Languages in 1903, History and Literature following in 1906. I happened to be a member of both committees...
...trod the maze of error round, Long wandering in the winding glade; And now the torch of truth is found, It only shows us where we strayed...
...knows better than I that this impression of that particular district is entirely in error and I can say in all truth that there is no district in San Francisco which can be described as being "tough." The San Francisco Police Department has worked hard and takes great pride in the fact that ours is one of the most crimeless cities among metropolitan cities of the world. We have never had racketeers or gangsters here; we have not had a kidnaping for ransom since the turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than...
This week Funk's Your Life amoeba suffered another division with the publication of Your Health. Well aware of the prevalence of hypochondria in the U. S., Publisher Funk has specialized in such articles as "Tobacco and You," "What Coffee Does to You," "The Truth About Antiseptics," "Throw Away Your Cathartics?" With 175,000 copies of his first issue ordered, he hopes that quarterly Your Health will, as its predecessor has done, soon grow into a monthly...
...credo suited all but the most doctrinaire New Dealers. He said: "To tell you the truth, I think that I am really a pretty conservative fellow from the old school, perhaps a school too old to be remembered. I think that, from the point of view of the investors, the one safe, controlling and guiding stand should be conservative standards of finance-no monkey business...