Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigorously flayed Prohibition, lauded Woodrow Wilson and stirred Southern wrath when he exhorted that section to "call political ecclesiastics back to the pulpits that truth may go to your people...
...priceless 15th Century church vessels he was naturally upset; when the detectives he sent for found a dead man in the squire's pew he was struck all of a heap. The murderer was tracked and some of the treasure recaptured in a few days, but before the whole truth came out Canon Effingham had a great many Disturbingly new experiences in a short time...
Great actresses, almost by definition, appear in vehicles which are focused on glamour rather than on truth. Mata Hari, brilliantly acted and directed, is no exception. Garbo. in the opinion of her admirers, is the Hollywood Duse, not far inferior to the tragic Eleonora. In this picture her Swedish voice, her awning lashes, her curt gestures are somehow becoming to the abridged and euphemistic story of a Javanese dancer whose real name, according to the best authorities, was Margaret Zelle MacLeod. Good shot: two lighted cigarets in a pitch black room, where Garbo and Novarro are talking...
...discuss a merger each has been trying to perform before the other-discuss the matter of the old Orthodox Eastern Church and to which realm (Rome or England) it is to be united. In his encyclical of last fortnight, the Pope earnestly beckoned to his "su-preme chair of truth" all non-Roman sects, with special aim in the beckon to Eastern Christians (TIME, Jan. 4). Well-informed as he is, the Pope doubtless knew what was to be the gist of an official Anglican-Orthodox report which would be made public in a few days. This report, out last...
...that it is useless to argue against, for as any student of sociology knows, the desire for approbation is a fundamental of human nature, and further that this desire serves as an incentive and stimulus to make men great scholars and scientists. Mr. Bell implies that we should pursue truth for truth's sake, on the contrary, we should pursue truth for society's sake. Mr. Bell's distinction between a man who desires to become eminent in his field and a man who desires to "seek after beauty and truth for the sake of beauty and truth...