Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is any truth in the old proverb about the success of the early bird in the quest of the wily norm, Tammany should have its way in the National Democratic Convention of 1928: for already, long before the dawn of the next presidential campaign, that organization's representatives are beginning to flit about and chirp noisily. The first flight, of course, has been southward. where the game is biggest, although most elusive...
...head, the fur of a fox and "the soft, melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player south of Panama...
...Here is a convenient coupon for either single or club subscriptions. Please use it and help us spread the gospel of truth in Texas...
Another slap was given to the perpetrators of the ill-timed questionnaire on the truth of statements made by W. O. McGeehan, sports writer, and the CRIMSON on the question of football versus academic prestige, by T. A. D. Jones, head coach of the Yale eleven. Coach Jones, who received one of the few postcards that escaped suppression, refused to vote. He did not indicate his belief in McGeehan's declaration that Harvard was ready to swap two presidents and three department heads for a good backfield; and he did not show agreement with the CRIMSON's statement that...
...were prepared to absorb as much academic and worldly wisdom as came their way. Neither was averse to a good time. The greatest difference is in the tense of the verb with which you describe fathers and sons: one got it, the other is getting it. The truth of any comparison seems to reduce itself to this: undergraduates of today are more numerous and may have to work harder than those of yesterday, but the motives and capabilities of the two are almost identical...