Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newspapers are the universities of the people" is a truism to which Horace Greeley gave wide currency, and since his time at has been repeated often, but with lessening conviction. Journals have, it appears, largely ceased to be organs of opinion, they have become organs of selling. The superiority of asbestos over concrete shingles must be impressed upon buyers because the high geared industrial mechanism produces a surplus of goods which must be sold by brute advertising. When advertising is relaxed, is during the printers' strike in New York last year, buying falls off immediately, and the slackening of demand...
...November. From Washington it was last week announced that Secretary of Commerce Hoover is one of those who think that the nations of the world would be more amicable were their ways of weighing and measuring the same. Said Mr. Hoover: "It may well be set forth, as a truism, that it is impossible to maintain proper standards of ethical conduct throughout business and industry without a proper background of recognized physical standards of quality and quantity. Much of the misunderstanding and ill-feeling arising in the course of transactions between producers and consumers can be eliminated...
...same time, the present wave of disbelief and somewhat defiant agnosticism may possibly be due to something besides mental growing pains. To say that present day conditions are a bit out of the ordinary and therefore explanatory of much, is undoubtedly a sickening truism; but like most painfully obvious remarks it is also true, and is something which short sighted critics who are of the elder generation could remember to advantage when flaying their juniors for non-conformity. The church does well which recognizes this abnormality and which goes to those most concerned for suggestions on how best to handle...
That the Labor Party is in power by grace of the Liberal Party is by now a truism. That the Liberal Party is showing signs of compound fracture became evident during the past week. This a priori reasoning led British political critics to forecast another general election within four months...
...there is no sure road to success and satisfaction at Harvard, that the University does not demand conformity in dress or habits or speech, that you are free within the bounds of law and decency to say and do as you wish, and that you are, to repeat a truism, in a world in little; so cherish your freedom and make your decisions. Harvard offers you all kinds of advice; it is characteristic of the College you are attending that you must decide for yourself what to accept and what to reject...