Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truth of the matter is that, with next fall's election in the offing, a flood of investigations seems to be in prospect, but how much the Republican action can hold back the flood is dubious. Even if a committee reports adversely on a proposed investigation, the Senate is likely to order the investigation if it continues in its present temper...
...Murdock's subject in English 33 this morning at 10 o'clock in Harvard 2. Longfellow is the poet without whom home is not home and a library is just a collection of books. Yet that this is far from being the true estimate of his merit seems the truth. It is claimed that he was a scholar, a true virtuoso, and a legitimate claimant to the deanship of American letters. I will seek the truth on this matter...
Hodge blunders through his part, in a manner so highly normal and idiotic that one comes to forget sooner or later that he is acting at all. Truth to tell, it is as if you and I were up there on the stage, trying desperately to cope with a lot of things which we do not understand. And so, sooner or later, Mr. Hodge obtains our sympathy, and our interest as well. We must acknowledge his powers of persuasion whether they be those of an actor or a demi...
...much love the pan-Germans, who help us, as hate the pan-Italians, who force our children to attend schools conducted only in Italian and harass us in numberless ways. The truth is that we are a 'frontier people' too weak ever to achieve the independence we would like...
...call it ridiculous because the Germans have thought to frighten our young proud Fascist Italy, which is not in the habit of being afraid of any one! . . . We are sufficiently insolent and explicit to substitute a new formula for an old one, since we are furthering the cause of truth and civilization and even of peace. Our new formula is this: 'We exact the payment of two eyes for the loss of only one eye, and of a whole set of teeth for the loss of only one tooth...