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Word: truth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biased statements of publishers and producers without so much as casting a critical eye over them are guilty of furthering the designs of prejudiced prophets, it standards of taste are to be elevated to any appreciable degree, the duplicity involved in so playing about on the border-line between truth and falsehood must have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BASELESS BALLYHOO | 11/19/1931 | See Source »

...name hundreds of "saints of science" whose altruistic devotion to research for truth's sake, developed a spirituality-a refined, unselfish morality, that far transcends in sanctity, all egoistic professional martyrs for all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...want to broadcast sunshine. Give Dr. Brinkley your medical problems. He will tell you the truth even if it makes you mad. I discharge my obligation to society when I urge you to have an examination every six months. Ninety-nine out of 100 won't, but I'm after that hundredth. Before you have your prostate gland removed send 25^ to the Brinkley Hospital for booklets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Goat Glands & Sunshine | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...shaken. Actually the sick leader had been defeated. His hard-swearing, quarter-deck-pacing opponent, Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, V. C. retired, Conservative, who commanded British "Mystery Q Ships" during the War, had won Burnley by 8,209 votes. At "The Old Bull," when this terrible truth was known, party workers could not bring themselves to face the Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Monstrous Majority | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...issued should expose, once and for all, the fallacy of one assumption which in recent time has been widespread. The idea has been repeatedly offered that as construction of the new Harvard houses attained physical completion, President Lowell would choose that occasion for a decision to retire. The truth is, of course, that completion of the houses themselves marks only the beginning of the evolution of the house-plan, and that no one knows this fact better than does Mr. Lowell, who first conceived the university's new way of development. The path of educational advance under the new conditions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/6/1931 | See Source »

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