Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is as much truth in these figures as there is in Mary Baker Patterson Eddy's statement in the year 1883 that "A million people acknowledge and attest the blessings of this mental system of treating diseases." According to the census of 1910 there were 85,717 Christian Scientists in the United States, but, as half of the members of the Boston (Mother) Church were counted also as members of their local churches the actual total was not more than 65,000. Likewise, the present alleged total should be revised down to about...
...presumptious to advance the possibility of such a Utopia, only extreme optimism could advance its probable occurrence. There will probably always be the low C, and D, and the E men. The Reading Period has proved this truth. It is the A, B and high C men who employed it to the best advantage; on the other hand, the undergraduates who cling to the lower half of the grade hierarchy seem not to have appreciated the experiment...
...That knife", and he pointed to the sheath in his stocking. "It's a Scotch ornament, or," and he scowled ominously, "for reporters who are not careful of the truth. I don't like reporters and I don't receive even the big ones, but I like to encourage young fellows on down the road. I suppose I am by now the old generation, and my ideas are different but the Scotch of me is still there, and my heart is right...
...familiar cry of "no personal contact" so often applied to large university has of course a strong basis of truth; and it is rather far-fetched to think that the meeting of one important Harvard man once a year with only 250 students will go far in establishing close relations between the student body and the governing factors in the University. Nevertheless the idea is good. University teas are another embodiment of this same effort, and they too, play a role in introducing the two main bodies of the University to each other. The semi-formal, social character of such...
Another excerpt: "It is a simple truth not only that individual freedom and the practice of self government are found to be most prevalent and firmly held in those communities and nations which have a highly developed system of industry and commerce as their foundation, but it is also true that only in such communities and nations can the average citizen attain the degree of individual comfort, education and culture which modern civilization is coming to demand...