Word: truth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there nothing, then, the U.S. could do? The hard truth was that the U.S. position in China was almost bankrupt. The New York Times reported: "Military Aid for China Is Sent in Navy Vessels." EGA officials did their best to step up shipping schedules, get cargoes of rice into Shanghai, whose authorities were harassed by food riots. But it was too late for such slight and tardy assurances of friendship and aid to have much practical or spiritual effect...
...would have been better to posit the situation in terms of balance. Then you would have reminded your readers of a basic truth-that emotional buoyancy and mental stability come, not so much from the resolution of conflict, but from the ability of the personality to maintain a balance between drives of varying intensity...
...Elastic Soil. Real scientists take a dim view of Road to Survival. Here & there, they admit, among Vogt's errors, prejudices, mysticism and reckless appeals to emotion, they can find iotas of truth-but not many. From the verbiage of Vogt and his fellows, three central ideas about soil can be winnowed. All of these ideas are wrong, and the scientists knock them down easily...
Like the Bucknell boys, most tourists and many Princeton residents consider the Institute for Advanced Study "that place where Einstein thinks." It is the truth, but not the whole truth. At 69, Albert Einstein is still an Institute faculty member, still comes floating, corona-haired, across "the grounds" to Fuld Hall every fair morning. But in the close-knit fraternity of physicists, it is sadly recognized that Einstein is a landmark, not a beacon; in the quick progress of physics, he has been left some leagues behind...
...being lighthearted about the deadly serious, Charles Williams will be a discovery indeed. Novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, who regards him as more important than either of such Christian authors as T. S. Eliot or C. S. Lewis, has spoken of Williams as "the figure who reaffirmed for intellectuals the truth that all created things are vehicles for the glory and reality...