Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeal to a noncritical class of readers which still takes a sarcastic-humorous attitude when the forecaster "misses," but completely overlooks the far greater percent of times when responsible forecasters are correct. However, in fairness to those who are striving to put weather forecasting on more scientific basis, the truth should not be so badly distorted...
...woman. How much of her real story can be told? You sitting and reading this book have also a story, a history. How much of that could be told? How much do we writers dare let ourselves go in the making of portraits? How close can we keep to truth? How much do we dare try to be true historians? . . . And then, too, another danger, always the danger of the historian's imagination also thrusting in. Who has not asked himself the question: 'Do I know my own wife, my brother, father, son, friend?' Moments of intense...
...highly detailed assignments and generally rough sledding through the myriad details of American government have left their stamp, a Freshman have an instinctive fear of enrolling in this basically worthwhile course. Their attitude is equally founded on both common hearsay and what has been, in the past, the truth...
...French Cabinet claims that what is being done is to adjust the franc by reducing its value and aligning it firmly with the dollar and the pound. As in all good fairy tales there is in this a large element of perfectly sound and factual truth. Any more cynical view results simply from the point of view itself...
...intelligent audience. In the second place he can get competent reviewers (not criticasters like the Benet boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There is nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find out the real truth and the whole truth about current publications. The New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune book sections are totally valueless so far as setting up any standards of merit is concerned. For plot-summaries and name, age, and habits of authors they have some worth...