Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Therefore stern, close-lipped President-Elect Irigoyen was thoroughly vexed, last week, and perhaps slightly perturbed at the effect which The Road to Buenos Ayres may have upon U. S. friendship for Argentina. None knows better than "Boss" Irigoyen how much truth is in the book; for as a youth he was a Police Captain in Buenos Aires (1873) and later Chief of Police...
...divine or poisoned by false doctrines, live evil lives far from the house of their divine father without the light of faith and without the joy of hope of future beatitude, and deprived of the benefits and comforts deriving from the ardor of charity, so that it can in truth be said that they live in darkness and the shadow of death...
...slowly, and confining their theorizing to the field of science proper, where theories must stand up to every devisable proof, these great scientists discovered many fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, from which flowed the immense mechanical progress of our own times. Quite incidentally to their pursuit of truth, they enriched the world materially to an immense extent; and even more incidentally, they made it possible for "scientific investigators" to earn a living as such. The various branches of science are no longer a vocation; they are split into a diversity of professions. This was inevitable. A merely ordinary intelligence...
This last generality, fond and frequent bon mot at parting of many parents; has often served to bring home their son earlier than they ever dreamed, Recognition of one truth is looking more and more at Harvard: that no single outside activity, athletics included, will so surely build a good citizen as conscientious application to college study. In the days when this idea bore the brand of propaganda it was quite properly abhorred, but recently it has achieved a renascence that seems unthreatened by even the ignorance of the familiar playboy. Mr. Slocum is carried on the wings of Pegasus...
...loud and energetic musical comedy that deals, in an offhand way, with the amorous misadventures of a cub marine who tells his girl that he is captain and an alumnus of Yale University. Tough though he is, the lady believes him. Her disgust, when she learns the truth, is not dissipated until the final curtain...