Word: truth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Dose. "You have a chance," he cried, "to help decide whether or not Harry Truman is going to be the future President of the United States. He is a man totally unfitted for the position. His principles are elastic and he is careless with the truth. He has no special knowledge on any subject and he is a malignant, scheming sort of an individual who is dangerous not only to the United Mine Workers, but dangerous to the United States of America...
...there is something on the credit side from this loss. Perhaps those on the Harvard squad who have never played big time football before will now be a little more confident and steady in big time competition. Maybe the Squad will realize the truth of Art Valpey's incessant remarks to the effect that we don't have a team yet: We have potentialities, but we cannot win until we work well both as a unit and individually...
Edward, My Son (by Robert Morley & Noel Langley; produced by Gilbert Miller & Henry Sherek) should repeat on Broadway the great success and long run (since May 1947) which it has had in London. It is that juicy mixture of about one part truth to two parts tripe known as good theater-that plumb sort of playwriting which is really just scene-writing. It gives two excellent English actors (Co-Playwright Morley and Peggy Ashcroft)* excellent opportunities...
...essay on Mechanism in Thought and Morals, Oliver Wendell Holmes reported how he experimentally took ether and, while under it, believed that he had grasped the key to all the mysteries of philosophy. Still remembering it as he came to, he scrawled on paper the all-embracing truth: "A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout." G. P. LAYBOURN JR. Minneapolis, Minn...
...Kremlin estimates U.S. strength, it is obviously dealing with the probable, the possible and the fantastic. Who, for instance, can say what effect the police state mentality has on honest strategic information? Do they tell Stalin what he wants to hear? Or do they tell him the truth...