Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madam" is again demonstrated the truth of the theory that one need have no great system of propaganda in mind before setting out to write a novel, theory which has seemingly fallen into disrepute among the majority of the better present-day writers of this country. "Purpose, purpose. purpose" is engraved in large type across the pages of almost all the novels of note which have appeared since the beginning of the war. To be sure there have been may thousands of books published abroad as well as in this country which had not purpose, but most of them, unfortunately...
...Americans, but to train native leaders for the country of their birth. Therefore, instead of attempting to segregate students and impress them with foreign ideals, they are left in contact with their normal environment so that there may be a continual interplay and progressive and natural adjustment between new truth and the old life. The college is content to introduce germinal ideas, expecting them to become dynamic in natural, indigenous ways. It would be of little benefit to Turkey to turn out emigrants to America, men whose education simply has made them dissatisfied with their homes. Rather...
...having no right to rule in England. But I suppose this is temperamentally impossible for Mr. Chesterton. For to speak ill of Lord Reading's services in England is, to put it mildly, paradoxical; to exalt the work of Sir Herbert Samuel in Palestine is simply to state a truth...
...capitalists, criticises the industrial court of Kansas as an institution seeking to inject into American life a device through which they may annual constitutional guarantees and deprive workers of the freedom and right to function through their organization. This would seem to be a biased opinion and in truth does not represent the real significance of this new feature in our judiciary system...
...that the National Security League misunderstands our purpose. The Security League seems to be operating under the ridiculous idea that college students are a bunch of infants who "swallow" everything they are told without the slightest thought on their part, while, of course nothing could be further from the truth. When the National Security League becomes so hard pressed for arguments for its cause that it becomes necessary for it to read into one word uttered by one speaker at the convention a meaning which was never intended for it, it is prima facle evidence of the weakness...