Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generous estimate, perhaps 4,000. [A student may get degree credit by taking courses in] 'poultry-raising,' 'wrestling, judo and self-defense.' Is this not an appalling situation?" Harvard may some day change its motto from "Veritas" to "Veritas et Ars Venditoria" (Truth and the Art of Selling). "The Harvard Business School raises neither ethical nor social questions ... it does not even take a broad view of business as business . . . the main emphasis of the school ... is concentrated on 'getting on.' ... University of Chicago applicants are assured that they can by mail acquire...
...tight-mouthed man from New Bedford, Mass. Slowly he went about his task of strengthening the company. Inventories were gradually written down to their value. Cash was conserved although it meant passing preferred dividends. No lies were told about the company, and stockholders did not like to hear the truth. Lately Mr. Pierce has been anxious to resign, but it has been difficult to find a man to take his place...
...going to Johnny Hun's is as integral a part of Princeton's educational program as eating, sleeping, and going to the movies. It is not. Or if it is, the University's underclass curriculum is so unreasonably exacting that it must be changed quickly, and the sooner this truth is known the better. Obviously, this circumstance can never be recognized so long as hordes of men continue to limp through Freshman and Sophomore tests on the crutches of highly paid, eleventh-hour tutors. --Daily Princetonian...
...Heaven, but Browning, for the sake of being epigrammatical, evidently sacrificed Truth for a good second line...
...days ago, while Stalin was announcing from Moscow that the famous "Five Year Plan" would be realized in four years, the Grand Duke Cyril in Paris was proclaiming himself Czar of all the Russias. There may be little truth in the political announcement; there may be no significance behind the dramatic gesture, but the simultaneous occurrences are as good an answer to the future of Russia as anyone can give at the moment...