Word: factful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ponderous is German bureaucracy. State officials were soon being called on the phone by hundreds of people. Apparently no one woke up to the fact that the Reich's war-will was being rapidly undermined. Finally, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop rushed to the Führer. It was not until 12:30, the hour when the Berlin station had been scheduled to go back on the air anyhow, that an official denial was broadcast from the Reich Chancellery itself-that is, from Adolf Hitler's own headquarters, which never before had stooped to deny a public rumor...
Although "further trial" may well prove sulfapyridine the flu cure doctors have awaited for 20 years, there is small chance that they will prescribe it as such this winter. For sulfapyridine must be handled as carefully as dynamite. It often gives patients nausea, headaches, "nerves," even delirium. Further, the fact that the drug lays low Hemophili is no guarantee that it will act with equal success against the combined forces of the six or seven other less common organisms which also occur...
...considerable embarrassment to British spiritualists. Before September 1, British spiritualist publications and practitioners were almost unanimous in proclaiming that their country would have ten or more years of peace. Last week, admitting that their faith was undergoing a dark hour, spiritualist apologists offered two explanations for the discrepancy between fact and forecast...
...Francisco, October's attendance is proving the best of the year (2,492,096 paid admissions for the first two weeks). It looked as if the Fair, by closing day, might just about pay off all but about $500,000 of its current debts. But the bald-faced fact was that no Fair official expected there would be a penny left to pay the outstanding $23,982,808 of the Fair's original $27,000,000 bond issue. The World of Tomorrow had to last over till...
...interest is the fact that Coach George Munger has brought his two top assistants with him. Usually at least one of the main mentors is scouting future, opponents each Saturday. However, Munger realizes that Howdy Odell and Rae Crowther, who formerly taught under Harlow, will be indispensable in checking the Harvard offense...