Word: truth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great political machine (TIME, March 23). To get even with his senior colleague for hogging WPA patronage, Senator Holt backed Ralph M. Hiner, onetime Speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates, for the nomination. Rush D. Holt won only the moral victory of having told the truth about the strength of the Neely machine which swamped Candidate Hiner more than...
...THEIR sitting and winnowing for the truth professors and scholars often disagree for years on end, debating, compromising, and surrendering as integrity of intellect dictates. Politicians disagree and debate, but elections decide issues and while a office, the victors are Doers. President Roosevelt invited professors and scholars to take an active hard in government four years ago. They sitter and winnowed and had to announce the results immediately Shortly after they did, the Republicans howled at the bumbling theories...
...spite of the fact that it is advertising, it's till the truth. The events in which he attempts his triple are his old standbys, the two hurdles races and the broad jump. He has yet to be beaten this spring is any of these events...
...likely to increase his prestige, or what is more important, his votes next Fall. By showing his anger in this vindictive manner, he is letting the people of Massachusetts know that the sting of criticism has sunk deeper that was expected. The old adage of "It's the truth that hurts" would seem to apply in this case, for His Excellency has taken the matter very much to heart...
...many a story and play to his credit, the War that changed him from an intelligent, independent man to a numbered pawn was a crippling straitjacket. Like Bertin, he decided: "More lies will be told about this war than any other international shooting-match. The survivors must tell the truth, and some of those who have a story to tell will survive." In 1933 he left Germany, is now, in company with every first-rate German writer, in exile. With his wife and two sons Arnold Zweig lives at Haifa, in Palestine, works as laboriously as his one remaining good...