Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholarships, according to the will of Cecil John Rhodes, are awarded annually on the basis of scholastic and literary abilities; moral qualities; under which are considered manhood, truth, courage, and fellowship; force of character and leadership; physical vigor, as demonstrated by interest in outdoor sports. As the committee is on the watch for men who will excel in a particular field, intellect and character will receive more emphasis than the quality of physical vigor...
...witnesses to the crash, the Press, reporters in general, and Ferreira, Goodwin blames newspaper handling of the affair, reconstructs a highly unlikely series of events leading to the crash and is fatuous enough to assume that any proportion of the thinking public will credit his words with truth...
However much or little truth there was in this,* British newspaper readers had scant opportunity to judge or obtain pertinent facts last week, and at the annual meeting of the British Institute of Journalists at Edinburgh their President Hugh W. Dawson read a hot attack on those British forces which he said tend constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly...
...this day of modern witch burning, when freedom of thought has been exiled from many lands which were once its home, it is the part of Harvard and America to stand for the freedom of the human mind and to carry the torch of truth...
Presently Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Eddie Rickenbacker, who played godfather to the whole stunt, arrived with a rescue party, persuaded the two to stop bickering, fly on together. Flyer Merrill at once telegraphed New York: "There is positively no truth in the rumor that Harry and I have any differences. We are closer friends than any two men living...