Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President broke silence, Saturday in a radio speech broadcasted to the four corners of the land so that all might know the truth. Without mincing matters, and regardless of anybody's feelings, he came right out and said: "The government prefers to let business go its own way, so long as that is the right way." And he didn't stop with more assertion. He backed up what he said with proof. Those who didn't believe him could go to "Alice in Wonderland". He made specific references, which really proved that the book in question was "Alice Through...
...exerted a more profound influence upon the thought and writing of his time. Unlike Hugo, however, Anatole France stands not in the role of magi, pointing the way that to others lies hidden. His delight was the unrestrained play of ideas. Not partisan, except in the larger service of Truth, he loved to stand aside and give every idea its inning, while with characteristic French humor he poked fun at them all. Stimulating and suggestive to individual thought, he was a true reflection of his age, and his age in turn, of him. As he himself expressed it; "The world...
After this talk a discussion was held, in which members of the club asked the speaker various questions, and discussed various subjects. This is one of the main ideas of the Forum; an endeavor to get at the truth through open and fairminded discussion...
...enthusiasm at Cambridge, as he did when we first met at Paris. But it seems to me now as then that if he would distinguish the case of High Protestant Episcopalianism from that of any other hard-shell Protestant sect. he must offer some more positive test of Christian truth than he does in his letter of October 8. So far as a mere lay-man can determine, it is no more reasonable to accept the Nicene Creed on his word, than it is to accept the Book of Genesis on Dr. Stratton's. Summerfield Baldwin...
Even granting a certain surface truth in what he says this latest college critic has surely allowed himself to be misled by what are mere "outward shows". No doubt he reaches a true appreciation of some Harvard men, or even of a certain class of them; but he is not justified upon such evidence in proceeding to a wholesale indictment, or in leaving the impression that his charge applies to that abstract, composite, and illusive phantasm--the Harvard...