Word: truths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, last week, able law, yer Henry Lewis Stimson wrote to Mr. Guthrie that he could convince him of the truth of Mr. Taft's onetime statement by a ten-minute trip through the Criminal Courts, Building in Manhattan...
...members of your board--including the student who wrote the editorial. Because of this and because you had full permission to reprint the manuscript in full subsequent to its publication in Liberty, it would seem that you, and not I, are responsible for the purveying of "that insidious half truth which can make more trouble than all the error possible for any popular periodical to gather in a year." (I quote directly one of your editorial assertions...
...case at least, nothing could be further from the truth. Humanization and very definite suggestions for its introduction were the two things which I specifically stressed. "My article was, in its small way, simply and solely a plea for just such an academic Renaissance. Because Liberty omitted all my suggestions for reform, the whole character and tone of my article was distorted. Originally, it was not a condemnation of all college teachers who have labored and gained the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, but an attack on the existing standards which I believed, and still believe, to be detrimental...
...perhaps the hardest working member of the Supreme Court, going to his office at 7 a. m. and often continuing into the night. His theory is that a search for the truth, if carried far enough, will always obliterate any conflict of opinion. His words are few-almost epigrammatic: "Instead of amending the Constitution, I would amend men's economic and social ideas...
...hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...