Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are plenty of men & women fighting the good fight of truth and democracy to feature on TIME covers. . . . Why publicize those who are pledged to destroy...
...gone into a violent dive, on a clear, calm day near El Paso, had flown upside down, and dumped 48 fear-stricken passengers* out of their seats. After some consideration they decided not to talk at all. But last week the Civil Aeronautics Board revealed the simple, if startling, truth. The whole thing had been a, witless practical joke...
...outstanding ambition at the present stage of his life--never to be quoted by a newspaper reporter. Faced with this impasse the material for this column was gathered with some sparring and tilting. The quest for truth was not enhanced by Bob's quiet, modest nature when discussing his past. Some people, for instance, think 175 pounds is light for pro football. When asked, Bob admitted that he might have been a little lighter than average, but he added that he outweighed his running mates, McLean and McAfee...
...have always thought of Harvard University as an institution imbued with the spirit of the search for truth and with the seriousness of purpose of its students. In my first few weeks here as a graduate student, however, I have been impressed unfavorably with the great degree of rudeness displayed by students in large lecture halls towards the lecturer and their fellow students...
Clint Anderson had been guilty of bad team-play; he had also poured cold water on the generous impulse of many a U.S. citizen. Nevertheless, there was a solid nut of truth in what he had said. Trying to save grain by starting with the consumer was like trying to lower prices through such retail price-cutting schemes as the ill-fated Newburyport plan (TIME, May 5). The only sensible place to start saving grain was where it came from-on the nation's farms...