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Word: truth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heard a story concerning Sir Arthur Eddington that may have a grain of truth. Sir Eddington had entered Sever Hall and was looking about rather bewildered, until his eye fell on a bellboy stationed there. he approached the bellboy and announced. "I am Sir Arthur Eddington...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Celebrities Helpful, Shy, Glowering Under Stare of Camera Eye; Lady Delegate Politely Reneged | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

Search for Truth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELEGATES FROM WHOLE WORLD CROWD SANDERS | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...knowledge liberates man, no barrier, political, religious, or social, should be crected to stop the search for truth. It may well be your pride that you have always fought uncompromisingly for the maintenance of the principle of freedom of research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DELEGATES FROM WHOLE WORLD CROWD SANDERS | 9/17/1936 | See Source »

...opinions of others. "To seek; to continue to seek . . . Not to swear by the words of the masters; but to return to the facts, and to the criticism of the facts" was the rigid creed he pronounced for literary historians to follow, if they wish to discover the real truth of what lies in the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Non-Technical Tercentenary Conference Formed Plan for Study of Human Society | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

...garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney was in on the tragedy of Parnell's disgrace, touched politics when he was arrested for the death of a "peeler" that one of his friends killed. His passionate, pious, innocent sweetheart, Elsie Sherlock, saved him by telling the truth: he had been in the woods with her when the crime was committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cork's Carney | 9/14/1936 | See Source »

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