Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some one con-duct a strict scientific investigation of Abrams' extravagant claims and fantastic methods f Attempts have been made. The American Medical Association consistently refuses to do so. It will conduct a serious investigation, its says, "when the American Astronomical Society appoints a committee to determine the truth or falsity of the theory of Voliva (head of the Zion City Dowieite colony) that the earth is flat." Abrams has constantly refused to submit his method to tests controlled by the ordinary canons of science. His "reactions" often disagree with conventional diagnoses, and are claimed to be more delicate...
...Manhattan journals printed authoritatively that Germany had ceased passive resistance in the Ruhr. Actually no such thing had occurred and did not occur until a fortnight later. Another journal recently received a despatch from its foreign correspondent to the effect that Queen Zita was living near Vienna. The truth was that she had not budged from Spain...
...There is but little truth and much propaganda in the majority of European papers I will admit. In any continental city it would be necessary to read eight or nine different newspapers each day in order to obtain a true and comprehensive idea of conditions in the world. This misrepresentation has worked harm in Europe. And yet I do not believe that facts have been misrepresented with a vicious desire to create trouble in the world...
...know anything about it," said F. W. Moore '03, graduate treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association, when questioned on Saturday as to the truth of the (recently published) statement that Coach Jack Slattery was to resign from the leadership of Harvard's baseball coaching staff...
...liberal one's only end should be to seek the truth. No one can accomplish anything who continually asks himself 'Is this radical?' or 'Is this conservative?' The question is 'Is it the truth...