Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neither Saint nor Mahatma" [i. e. 'Great Soul'], he told the clamoring worshipping populace gravely. "You must not think me supernatural. I am only a satyagrahi [one who practices truth force, love force, soul force]. I am but a humble servant. I am only common clay...
...charge often levelled against the Princeton undergraduate by outsiders--namely, that he is cast into a certain inevitable mould by the time he has run the gamut of extra-curricular activities, clubs, week-ends and final comprehensives--must be recognized as having an element of truth. There certainly is a definite "Princeton manner" and attitude toward life which is more especially observable in the Princetonian when he is away from college and alone in an alien society. Debutantes call it "smoothness" and idolize it, but others are inclined to characterize it as everything from "snobbishness" to "pseudo-sophistication...
...policy: a political, social and economic peace among citizens, classes and groups, a religious peace and a peace among nations and states; a loyal and not a deceitful peace; an operating and not a static peace because it is aimed at preserving men and nations; a peace founded on truth. . . . [The agreement] represents a victory for no particular nation, but a victory for all the nations, a victory for equity and good sense, which is no less important in the relations between na- tions as in the relations between individuals. It leaves behind no recriminations or bitterness...
...skins were not yet dry, indicating they had been trapped out of season. It was also made clear that Pastor Schoenfeld, who was known to trade in furs as a sideline to preaching, had been served with a warrant for possession of "illegal" furs, not for stealing. The truth of all this Pastor Schoenfeld did not contest, but nevertheless he filed a libel suit for $100,000, protesting the headline. A jury refused it. The pastor appealed...
...juvenility of those august bodies. We have often heard the maxim that one always contemns the architecture of one's grandfather, and it seems unfortunate that Harvard should be so taken with the desire to spend money and to heap up new bricks as to lose sight of this truth. William Stix...