Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning to see with the eye of the blind poet who said in his "Areo pagitica": "Let Truth and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter...
...wish to contradict you most strongly by saying that America did not look with "anxiety" or "resentment" upon "the advance of the Red army upon the Polish borders." To tell the truth everyday America paid little attention to the Russo-Polish affair, being already heartily sick of the European muddle. But what irritates me here is your evident lack of desire to give the true historical perspective to this "Red advance," or your mention of Koskiusko shows you to be more familiar with your ancient history than with the living history of today...
With the announcement of liberal price cuts by the majority of automobile manufacturers, there arises the rather pertinent question as to just how much truth there is in the generosity which they all modestly flaunt before the dear public. Some manufacturers frankly admit that they are selling below cost at the new prices; others are more modest...
...burlesque to state your belief in. "The lasting establishment of the League of Nations under the guidance of a Republican Administration supported by such leaders as Root, Hughes, Taft, Hoover, and Wiekersham" as against "The Democratic hegemony of Taggart, Nugent and Tamany Hall". It would be closer to the truth, the of course detrimental to your argument, to say that you believe that Harding, indorsed by Johnson, Borah, Lodges, Moses, Viereck, and other radical politicians and admittedly pro-Ger- man schemers, will change not only his opposition to any League of Nations, but also the opinion of the leading nations...
...perfected Doric temple, by means of its slightly curved lines and unequal spacings, produces the effect of a structure with straight lines and equal spacings, the truth of the imagination far surpassing the truth of reality; and a play of Sophocles or an ode of Pindar is a literary structure to which the same painstaking care has been given. But in translation the effect of all this delicate workmanship is irretrievably lost. He who is content to study the classics in translation alone will be content to regard as Doric temples the post-office buildings, with column drums slushed...