Word: untruths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Treasury Department for the Senate Finance Committee, the soldiers' measure will cost $242,000,000 for the first three-year period, or an average of slightly more than $80,000,000 a year. ... It is unpardonable for the Secretary to try to fool the nation into believing an untruth, that $80,000,000 taken from $323,000,000 leaves actually nothing...
...same train of coke across the frontier by day into Alsace and back again by night, a proceeding reminiscent of long parades on the stage in which a handful of men create a delusion by running around back of the scenery. A little observation proved this an untruth "gross as a mountain", although the official believed it implicitly...