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Word: truthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moral defeat. And Gandhi's ashes were not cold before the world had begun to vulgarize his saintliness (as it had vulgarized Lincoln's*) by insisting, against the facts, that there was no vulgarity in him. The world finds it hard and self-shaming to believe that truth can be glimpsed from the earth; its heroes must be projected into a nebulous world of "mysticism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAINTS & HEROES: Of Truth and Shame | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

During the course of his main speech and two rebuttals, Barnes insisted that Communists cannot teach or speak without distorting facts and that he could see no good "in permitting a teacher of youth to one whose life is devoted to concealment and distortion of truth, whose aim is the subjugation of mankind to a ruthless dictatorship...

Author: By R. SCOT Leavitt, | Title: Mather, Barnes Wrangle Over H220 Before Overflow New Lecture Crowd | 2/7/1948 | See Source »

...truth is a long time in coming. We present merely the facts for the further edification of the literate masses...

Author: By Robert W. Morgan jr., | Title: Doubt Shrouds Harman visit Here | 2/3/1948 | See Source »

...sound instinct, for "those prophets seem to be standing on the tiptoe of expectation, waiting for 'Him who is to come.' . . . For there is a profound organic connection between the Old Testament and the New, and nowhere more than in the prophets do we feel the truth of St. Augustine's words: 'In the Old Testament the New lies concealed: In the New Testament the Old lies revealed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Ancient Preachers | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...anesthetics have replaced sick-making ether, or made it possible to use much less. Hangover-proof cyclopropane was first demonstrated only 15 years ago; curare, a South American arrow poison introduced four years ago, relaxes muscles, reduces the amount needed of any general anesthetic. Sodium pentothal (the "truth drug"), no more terrifying than a sleeping pill, is enough for some operations ; it may also be used to calm a frightened, fighting patient for the once-dreaded trip to the operating room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Better Operation | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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