Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually, the mob crowd was in number (using TIME'S estimate of 500) less than .00025 of the population of Mississippi. Fair-minded TIME-readers will suspect that a vast majority of the remaining .99975 shuddered at this ghastly thing, which is the truth...
...affirms that the results already obtained .justify continuation of the investigation. . . . The commission of inquiry is not trying to discover who is right and who is wrong in their political ideas and policies, the 'Trotskyists' or their opponents. It is engaged in trying to get at the truth as to the specific charges upon which Trotsky was convicted in the Moscow trials. . . . If Trotsky is guilty no condemnation can be too severe, and if he is innocent there is no way in which the existing regime in Soviet Russia can be acquitted of deliberate, systematic persecution and falsification...
...their doors to independent and fearless German teachers who have been exiled because of their courage and independence. Naturally, therefore, they are reluctant to do anything which might even indirectly be interpreted as doing honor to the new German spirit--a spirit of repression, narrowness and hostility to the truth...
...amount he gets done each day is enormous. He's now in the process of writing a book on politics; has about finished "The Realm of Truth", and incidentally is revising a little play: "Philosophers At Court" concerning Plato's visit to Dionysius at Syracuse. At present for relaxation he's reading Latin poetry and touching up a few sonnets. He writes easily but carefully. Manuscripts are set aside for long periods of time; then if necessary undergo severe revision. It is no wonder he's been called the best modern prose stylist. Yet you will recall he didn...
...weeks of its publication in France, Return From the U. S. S. R. sold over 100,000 copies. Reason: a writer of great reputation and acknowledged integrity, who had gone to Russia an avowed Communist, had written a beautifully lucid report which had all the earmarks of the disappointing truth...