Word: truthfulness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often does the Harvard student realize too late the full importance of his Freshman record on the ultimate complexion of his college career. The truth of this statement will bcome more and more apparent to the student as he progresses through the various stages of his assimilation to the Harvard educational methods. The system of divisional examinations with its unlimited opportunities for individual effort and interest is not as a rule appreciated until the Junior or even the Senior year. And then it is often found that the student lacks the prerequisite requirements for the attainmnt of his newly appointed...
Further in your article you infer that I was not present at the Court of Inquiry, at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1924. The truth is the Navy Department asked me if I would be a voluntary witness and I proceeded to New York from Washington and was the only witness called. This is a matter of record with the press and all evidence can be found in the Judge Advocate General's office at Washington...
...From midnight on the Continental powers steadily though stubbornly yielded. Soon after the ancient Binnenhof clock clanged one it was known that Mr. Snowden had received and accepted an offer satisfying 82% of his demands. After a month of false rumors of agreement correspondents would believe the welcome truth only if uttered by drawn-faced, cripple Snowden himself. As he passed through the gates of the Binnenhof at two a. m., hobbling wearily on two rubber-tipped canes, they surged about him shouting, "Is everything all right...
...understanding after nearly a month of secret parleys (TIME, Aug. 5). In Berlin, both diplomats kept absolutely mum, and at Nanking the Chinese Nationalist Government would neither affirm nor deny that peace had been patched up. In Moscow, however, the Soviet Government's official news organs Pravda (Truth) and Isvestia (News) announced categorically that China had accepted Soviet terms for settlement of the present crisis-provoked when the Chinese Government deported high Soviet officials of the Chinese Eastern Railway (owned by Russia, jointly operated by China and Russia) and clapped into jail as "dangerous propagandists" numerous subordinate Soviet employes...
...Falke was supposed to call at Las Palmas, Canary Islands for orders. She went nowhere near the Canaries. Capt. Tipplitt turned her nose straight for the coast of Venezuela. Soon the crew learned the truth. The 125 passengers were revolutionists, many of them Generals, under the command of General Romano Delgado Chalbaud, exiled former chief of the Venezuelan Navy. The baggage and boxes of the revolutionists contained rifles, machine guns, ammunition. Capt. Tipplitt was in their pay. The Falke's job was to raid the coast of Venezuela...