Word: truth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reading of Lincoln's reply to Douglas, at Peoria on Oct. 16, 1854, reveals that the truth-loving, morality-conscious Great Emancipator expressed a materially different sentiment: "Stand with anybody that stands right. Stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong." Again Honest Abe said on May 19, 1856: "But we must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot...
...London's high-church Bishop J. W. C. Wand, and then the assembled churchmen recited, from the Book of Common Prayer, the Collect for the Church : O Gracious Father, we humbly beseech Thee for Thy holy Catholic Church; that Thou wouldest be pleased to fill it with all truth, in all peace. Where it is corrupt, Purify it; where it is in error, direct it'; where in any thing it is amiss, reform...
George, who was "wallowing" in such sins as tennis and profanity. "Besides," said Gil-Martin, "you ought to consider what great advantages would be derived to the cause of righteousness and truth were the estate and riches of that opulent house in your possession." Robert considered, and ran his brother through the back one moonlight night...
...defined academic freedom as the right of a scholar to seek the truth, discuss his subject, and offer conclusions through publication and classroom instruction. It also asserted that membership per so in any, political or religious group or adherence to any philosophical, political, or religious belief does not necessarily constitute grounds for dismissal or failure to rehire...
Weeding out applicants by a homemade aptitude test, Miss Efron started with a class of 20, including six practicing newsmen. At first, teacher and class fought in French on philosophical terrain: What is truth? What is objectivity? When Miss Efron tried to explain the difference between opinion and fact, gossip and news, her students replied that she was "stifling the Haitian soul." Later, "Editor" Efron sent her reporters scurrying out on assignments. Says she proudly:"They got kicked out of the best places in town...