Word: fac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even if it had, no New York channel is now available. The Times also has no plans for a fac simile edition, after months of experimental trans mission...
...most difficult assignment was to fathom the doings of the "Med. Facs," a mysterious society, the invitations to which embraced acts which if detected by the College officers might mean expansion from the University. No one could discover the identify of the six "Med. Fac." members until Harvard Class Day, when they appeared faunting on a lapel a sort of black pen-wiper with white skull-and-crossbones. Some of the antics of the "Med, Facs." become notorious, such as placing a fireman's hat on the head of the solider stop the granite monument on Cambridge Common, which...
...Russians knew that the cumber some mass of Russian arms could not roll far beyond Russia's borders. One-third of the Red Army was already demobilized (see FOREIGN NEWS), and millions more would soon be returning to farms and fac tories. Russia's prospects of expansion by world revolution had seldom been slim mer. All over Europe, men looked else where than toward Communism for a kind of security and dignity that their prewar systems had failed to insure them. In consequence the Communist parties, far from being all-powerful or irresistible, were on the defensive...
They could recall two major incidents: 1) French newspapers once charged that Allied flyers had spared I. G. Farben fac tories (some U.S. papers had also printed it); 2) a sensational yarn that U.S. troops destroyed supplies which French civilians might have used (a story which the French were slow to correct when proved wrong). Aside from these, the French press - as best exemplified by the Paris dailies -has been almost timid in discussing its great western ally. The further fact is that the old, rowdy prewar Paris press is either dead or sound asleep...
...offensive was probably timed to coincide with an ultimatum to Germany's people to overthrow their government and end the bombing (see p. 32). The morale of Berliners and Germans was as much the R.A.F.'s target as the sprawling fac tories, Government offices and railway communications of their capital. The Battle of Berlin will continue, said the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, "as opportunity serves and cir cumstances dictate until the heart of Nazi Germany ceases to beat...