Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...over plants now idle, not those making profits. In other words there is the recognition that capital and labor are partner. Labor simply asks to be allowed to demonstrate that, if its partner falls, the partnership can be dissolved without loss to itself. If it succeeds in proving the truth of the assertion, the employer will be forced to admit that his relation to labor must be different in the future; if it falls he has lost nothing...
...glowing yet brighter than before. The torch now is ours, and it is we who must lift it high--not with strife, and bickering, and gloomy forebodings, but with calm trust and steadfast purpose. This is our heritage--this is our duty on the stage of life; that courage, truth, and light shall dwell forever in the land of the Pilgrims...
...admirable ease and grace of the narrative as well as the pleasing truth with which the principal characters are designed make "The Vicar of Wakefield' one of the most delicious morsels of fictious composition on which the human mind was ever employed. We read it in youth and age--we return to it again and again, and bless the memory of an author who contrives so well to reconcile us to human nature."--Sir Walter Scott. Large quarto. Cloth. Decorative cover. Published at $20.00. Constable, Ltd., London. Special Price...
...course of Harvard's Senior elections, becoming, of late years, increasingly liable to charges of incompetence and corruption, has terminated in complete and utter chaos. Indifference on the part of class officers, carelessness or willful distortion of truth on the part of poll-watchers and count-takers, short-sightedness on the part of the election committee,--all will come in for a share of the blame. But no individual culprits may be named; the atmosphere of crass negligence which overlies the whole affair obscures the cause of the injustice which has been wrought...
...those who know tell a far different story. As facts begin to make the truth of fanciful pictures of Russia wealth extremely doubtful we after led more and more to ask why we should enter into relations with a moneyless, creditless country, whose government has almost nothing to offer for the guarantees which would come from us. Can we believe that the economic advantages of trade with Russia are so great that we should rid ourselves of all aversion to Soviet ideas and enter into an agreement--which involves recognition--for the sake of a gain as uncertain at bottom...