Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said the court: "You can see how completely irreconcilable are the versions of the facts." As to who was telling the truth, he left that to the jury. That was, in the end, all that they had to decide...
There is still a lot of truth in the post World War I saying: "The situation in Austria is desperate but not serious, while the situation in Germany is serious but not desperate...
Beginning with the words, "I believe. . .," Barth devotes three lectures to the subject of Faith. "Christian faith," he says, "is the illumination of reason in which men become free to live in the truth of Jesus Christ and thereby to become sure also of the meaning of their own existence and of the ground and goal of all that happens...
Variable Alphabet. It appears, however (by page 320) that after a satiety of bloodshed and moral corruption, "a colossal need arose for truth and justice, for reason and for some form of order out of the chaos." The very alphabet and the multiplication table had become instruments of power politics, and were liable to be changed from one moment to the next. There was a growing longing for reason and "the rediscovery of a common idiom, for order, morality and valid measures." Out of this need arose the Order of . Eastern Wayfarers, a semi-religious body composed originally of scholars...
Toombs is an ex-newsman whose wife took ill and left him to care for their three children. If there is a word of truth in Raising a Riot, Toombs ran about like a chicken with its head off for 18 months-a spectacle that may weary some readers after 18 pages-and finished every day feeling like "an egg dropped on concrete...