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Word: truthful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will testify for that man. . . . He's a fool." Of ex-Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu: "My personal good friend. He, together with myself, has always been opposed to war." But most other defendants he decided to condemn-admittedly for reasons of personal revenge. Said Tanaka: "I feel the truth is necessary for Japan and for the world. That is why I shall be assassinated when the occupation is over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: The Greatest Trial | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

John Calvin, who was barely 27 when he sent to the printer his famous Institutes in 1535. But, says McNeill, he never substantially altered his doctrine thereafter. An ardent humanist before what he called his "sudden conversion" to Protestantism, he carried his love of truth for its own sake over into his religious teaching: "If we hold that the Spirit of God is the one fountain of truth, we shall neither reject nor despise the truth itself, wherever it appears, unless we wish to be contemptuous of the Spirit of God." Of his central doctrinal position he wrote: "Predestination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestanism's Fathers | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...employments." The son of a British grocer, he managed to live most of his life among the well-to-do, whom he naively regarded as a "great part of the world." But his spiritual teaching was no less exacting for all that. "Hold this therefore as a certain truth," he once wrote, "that the heresy of heresies is a worldly spirit." The Serious Call, says McNeill, has been criticized for its "one-sided emphasis on good works" and "lack of stress on Scripture." But it influenced many. No less a critic than Dr. Samuel Johnson called it "the finest piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestanism's Fathers | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Incredible Riches. A literal account of the prosperity, the civilization and happiness of life in Salem in the years of its prosperity seems not quite credible. The modern reader instinctively feels that there must have been some catch in it somewhere. Yet the truth is that historians have not glamorized Salem's past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Before the Harvest: Before the Harvest | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

...cautious and sympathetic study of Wolfe, Herbert Muller tries to strike a balance between the two extremes. Probably Muller's temperate judgment is close to the truth, but readers who feel strongly about Wolfe are likely to become impatient with his fence straddling. Wolfe is the sort of author who inspires lyricism or invective, not judicious interpretation. Muller is therefore up against it, and knows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Genius Enough? | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

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