Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In reference to the controversy in TIME, [Dec. 13, Nov. 22], regarding the appellation "gobs" please be advised that both Admiral Irwin and the party who thinks the Admiral is wrong are correct to some extent. But the real truth of the matter is that one sailor may call another a "gob," but since the return of the Fleet from the wonderful cruise to Australia he is more liable to use the Australian word and pronunciation and call his shipmate "Silor" with the "i" pronounced "eye." This entire matter should hardly merit all this discussion...
...takes its name from the great river Han which flows into the greater Yangtze. The city lies at the confluence, with Wuchang, the new Nationalist Capital, just across the Yangtze. Daily for months the Nationalist Government has kept its agents busy telling the Chinese at Hankow the axiomatic truth that if they would all rise against the foreigners, the foreigners would have to sail away, leaving $60,000,000 worth of property behind. Last week this new and surprising thought flared up in a chattering mob of Chinamen who had believed since birth that it was better to empty slops...
...tiptoed out softly, so as not to wake us, and we began to wonder what he would have done if we had said, "No." Presently we found out, as he came back an asked us again. And we said we weren't. Beside being the truth, this was a bad guess, because he believed...
...Bates debaters based their argument on the Bible, quoting "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." They praised the theory of scientific investigation, bringing out the fact that science had cured many diseases and increased the length of man's life...
...million; to another a million and a half. Part of the legend is, of course, that no partner ever questions Mr. Morgan's division of earnings. The tale is one that captures the glamorous imaginations of Wall Street men who like to think themselves prosaic. There is less truth in it than in the fable of King Midas whose touch turned all to gold. The ancient myths were not, as this modern one, groundless...