Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson" evidently did not care about the truth. It seems that what it was interested in doing was to supply "information" to the police. For the "Crimson" then goes on to say that it called up the Boston Red Squad to give them the information and try to provoke them into take action. The Red Squad, however, "declined to comment...
...true, I hear, that our knowledge is not increased by such deductions for I must already know that Hypatia is a mortal woman before I can intuit the first proposition: "All women are mortal." But, ye faithless ones, must mere logic displace the happy truth that all genius lives forever in the sentiments and ideas it inspires? And was not Hypatia a genius? Was she not beautiful? And modest? And intelligent? And was she not done to death in oyster shells? Holy fishes, is this not enough for immortality? Bless my soul, I should like to teach those girls...
...superior officer should have known what his opinion was. His superior officer had instructed him to testify ''freely and frankly," then disciplined him for doing so. Now, should an officer of our military establishment need the consent of his superior officer to permit him to tell the truth as he sees it or express an opinion at the invitation of a House military subcommittee, which committee's conclusion is of first importance in our national defense...
...question over which sociologists, psychologists and anthropologists have quarreled long & loud. In essence their dispute is the ancient one of Nature v. Nurture, of Instinct v. Conditioning, of Heredity v. Environment. Dr. Gordon Willard Allport of Harvard feels that there have been too few concrete demonstrations of how much truth there is on each side. Such a demonstration he published last week in Character & Personality...
This is a time of peril for the Universities of the world--liberty is the life blood of those who are in quest of truth...