Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idea that any "motherly soul" can show a varsity boat a few pointers on rowing, there may be a minimum of truth in it; but in actual practice it is absurd. If anybody can ride in the proposed coaching-excursion boats, who will there be left to fill the observation cars at New London? Peanut galleries are all right in their proper place, but there is a limit...
...censorship makes it difficult to cable a true story from Russia. Not for three years has the Tribune had any correspondent in Russia. Last week with appropriate fanfare the Tribune announced that Mr. Wales had received the Soviet Government's permission to go wherever he likes, report the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, by mail...
...just as there was a real foundation for the attacks of the early primitivists against the neo-classicism of eighteenth century France, so there is a great deal of truth in Professor Mearns' criticism of modern pedagogy. He points out that it is instinctive for the child to tell the truth, which is often so embarrassing to the adult, and that the grownup tries to stifle this natural virtue in order to conform to social conventions. As a poet, too, Mr. Mearns believes that the child has possibilities which if encouraged would produce far greater poetry than that which...
Admitting the truth of the basic fact, there nevertheless seem to be several weaknesses in the recommendation. There are great differences in the rate that persons intellectually mature. Some mature early, finish secondary school in four years without difficulty, and are admitted to college, where they do good work. There are others who never attain the intellectual development of the first, and who find difficulty in finishing their preparation. In college they are misfits, and should be weeded out as soon as possible. But there is also a third group of those who mature slowly, but when they once finish...
...fanciest. The great man scowled down at his midget caller and in their ensuing conversation sought to squelch him thoroughly and forever. After the little fashion-plate had carried his point and walked off, Old Man Scripps is supposed to have uttered the famed encomium, the truth of which other great men have learned about Roy Howard: "That young man boots." will never get indigestion licking my Aftermath, The court decision con signal firming for the the sale of maddest the Worlds newspaper was scram the ble for circulation and advertising that New York newsmen could recall. Every paper...