Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uniformity in the often whimsical, but always personal utterances of German poets. The foremost of these poets are interpreted in special courses provided by the Department, or studied in connection with other writers of their time, both native and foreign; the valiant Lessing, ever alert in the defense of truth and reason; Goethe, perhaps the most comprehensive genius of modern times, a liberator from everything commonplace; Schiller, apostle of freedom, morality; and beauty--not to mention their numerous successors in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. If the works of many German authors are heavily weighted with thought, these works...
...relate to you. I was totally unprepared to find it here, of all places, for what I had seen and heard of these Satellites led me to look upon them in spite of their peculiarities, as a superior breed of men, above the weaknesses of common human nature. The truth is, that almost all of these young men are afflicted with a strange malady which suffuses them with drowsiness, so that, no matter where they are or what they are doing, they are always on the point of falling asleep. Many of them, indeed, are in such an advanced stage...
...truth being stranger than fiction, they behaved themselves in most pacific manner, resembled a gathering of learned pedants...
...London, last week, a book by one V. W. Germains, entitled The Truth About Kitchener, was published. In it appears a letter by no less a person than Germany's faded star, General Erich von Ludendorff. Writing to the author, General Ludendorff first apostrophised the late Field Marshal, then proceeded...
...this question, he seemed likely to debate alone. The issue of the trial as taken by the defense was not to be the futile question: "Is evolution true?" but: "Can the human mind be limited by law in its inquiry after truth? May freedom of teaching and freedom of learning be forbidden...