Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here lies an assured and inescapable truth. It is the stronger because, even while firmly proclaiming its strength, it willingly recognizes its own limitations. Schools never yet have created an atom of genius; but rare, exceedingly rare, is the man of fair endowment who cannot, by schooling, increase his own competence and his worth to society, whether in business or in botany, in finance or in philology. The Boston Transcript...
...requires no special knowledge to appreciate the truth of this. Anyone who lisa followed a political campaign in the newspapers realizes it. In the recent mayoralty contest in Chicago the issue was King George the Fifth of England--a topic which affected Chicago not at all, of which the voters knew nothing and on which the victorious candidate could not conceivably take any action. Yet he swept into office for that reason...
...stock broker, a Bostonian. One of the most pleasing of modern phenomena is that of the interest which business men, college professors, men from all the categories of current existence, have taken in the finer points of this attempt to probe the Sacco-Vanzetti case in search of the truth...
...Mary, no lamb, there might not have even been a May-flower, a Plymouth Rock, a Jonah, a, may one suggest it, a purple window. Tradition wavered before the onslaught of science. And then came sanity. For this morning the slowest wits of Boston had realized the truth. The Athenaeum had merely played a joke with its story about the non-existence of Mary. A great, great, great etc, grandson of the lamb had told the truth. He had a picture of his ancestors. And there was Mary right beside him. The sun shines once more on the State House...
...Major Moore's services to his Alma Mater have been many and varied. His career has been devoted to the promotion of wholesome rivalry and clean, vigorous sportsmanship. To him athletics existed not only to build the body but to train the mind and spirit. He knew well that truth and fair play can be taught no where better than on the gridiron or a diamond...