Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...News in 1929 reported that Professor Bradley, as trustee for the estate of his brother, had been disallowed $706, expenses claimed in the administration. The disallowance was said to be purely technical, and there was no imputation of dishonesty to Professor Bradley. He did not challenge the truth of the newspaper account. What he did challenge?and sued for $25.000?was the headline. It read: ALLEGE PROFESSOR JUGGLED FUNDS...
...Uses of 'Truth' and 'Beauty'." Professor Richards, Sever...
...underlinen. We are inwardly gratified that we are reputed to be rough in our ways, ready with our blandishments, and resolute in our pursuit of happiness and its appurtenances. Neither estimate errs on the side of verity, but to deny that we appreciate both would be to stretch the truth still further...
...except Communists will agree with his animadversions on Communism: "There is no reason to think that the Communist International will succeed as the mouthpiece of infallible truth where the great Roman Catholic Church has failed. . . . No believer that tolerance, liberty and the scientific rather than the dogmatically religious approach to problems are essential to the good life can be content with Communism however keenly he may appreciate some of its benefits...
Even convinced Republicans may find some truth in his strictures on democracy: "Fifty million Frenchmen. British, Germans or Americans can be wrong...