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Word: truthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these dark days into which the world has lurched, the cause of true scholarship has been obscured more than many other fundamental rights of free regimes. In totalitarian states, the searchers after truth have been hounded from existence by States which prefer to create false sciences rather than adapt their beliefs to legitimate knowledge. But in China the scholars have more literally faced booming guns and gleaming bayonets. For the impetuous Japanese onrush has destroyed universities as well as arsenals and the comparatively small band of Chinese students has had to retreat to the hinterlands and there start work anew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARS WITHOUT BOOKS | 2/15/1939 | See Source »

Miss McAfee held that the totalitarian states differ from this country on two basic principles: one, that truth is stronger than error; the other, that we can legitimately and reasonably respect our fellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ten Supporters Defend Intellectual Freedom at Lincoln Day Gathering | 2/13/1939 | See Source »

Granville Hicks '23, often referred to in horrified whispers as an "avowed" Communist, announced yesterday that he had accepted a challenge to debate publicly in Boston with the Reverend Edward Lodge Curran, president of the International Catholic Truth Society...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HICKS TO MEET PRIEST IN COMMUNISM DEBATE | 2/3/1939 | See Source »

...challenge came from the Reverend Edward Lodge Curran, President of the International Catholic Truth Society, who said in his letter to Hicks, "I am opposed to any form of dictatorship in the United States, whether it be a dictatorship from the right or a dictatorship from the left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GAUNTLET THROWN BY PRESIDENT OF CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY | 2/1/1939 | See Source »

Somewhere between the fancy counterfeits of fashion pictures and the buttocky satires of Reginald Marsh is the truth about the New York Working Girl's life & looks. Of her few sympathetic interpreters in art, the subtlest last week had an exhibition at Manhattan's Midtown Galleries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bishop's Progress | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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