Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claimed that France would have, for the first time in ten years, a balanced budget. That was not entirely the truth. Among the credits appeared an item of 800,000,000 francs (about $42,500,000) expected from the Germans under the Experts' Plan. In the past, France has theoretically balanced her budgets by crediting payments from Germany that were never made. The present budget is following a precedent, not creating one. The point is somewhat academic. Germany, no one doubts it, will pay; nevertheless, the principle of crediting money before it has been received is obviously unsound. Critics...
...many minds Dr. Fosdick has spoken as a new apostle of truth. Others see in him a dangerous radical, advocate of a convenient, but self-destroying, morality. But whatever the individual judgment, one must see that, as this dynamic devotee of a new order breaks with the existing system of creed and sect, an event is taking place fraught with vital consequences in the coming moral and religious life of the nation...
...number of students affected in this way is probably much smaller than Professor Edman would have one believe. The average undergraduate seems rarely to find his love of abstract Beauty and Truth so strong that is causes him to shrink from existence. However, there are undoubtedly a considerable number of sensitive men who go through such an experience. That this is an evil seems self-evident. Education is simply instruction in the art of living, and when it becomes divorced from life it loses all its meaning. The fundamental remedy for this situation as for a considerable number of other...
...beauteous scart Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest...
...Will any one argue that war is not a corrupter of youth? Its damage to the souls of men is greater than its material damage. And, since war is what it is, the sooner mothers know the truth the sooner war will be abolished...