Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...developing in the student body? She touches invisible button number one, and the matter ends. Does a faculty member sponsor a doubtful local issue? Invisible button number two avoids the difficulty, and it is done so skillfully that neither student nor faculty member holds the slightest rancor, nor in fact quite knows how it all came about...
...from outright laughter. Senator Jones, according to Congressman Tilson, wore his "best poker face." President Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying: "I thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy of the White House scene was furnished by the fact that the Senate defaulted on the tariff bill by voting to end the special session with this major legislation still uncompleted. The first session of the 71st Congress which began last April and ended last week cost the country $177,000,000, exclusive of legislators' salaries which must...
...suggest the tremendous power of the Lexington, the Navy's publicists have broadcast the fact that her 190.000 h. p. turbo-electric engines could develop enough electricity "to light a city the size of Philadelphia, to operate the transit facilities of a city the size of New York...
Once in a not too distant past Harvard did look favorably upon the theatrical arts. This is demonstrable by the fact that the present American stage is largely controlled by former members of the Forty Seven Workshop. The ante-dated conservative atmosphere which the teaching of the drama has now assumed at Harvard indicates that its present predominance in the theatre can not help but be short lived...
...settings of A.A. Milne's English comedy, despite the fact that they offered an unusually difficult problem for the designer, will thus again be the work of an undergraduate artist. This is in accordance with the Dramatic Club's policy of making use of student talent where ever possible. The three dimensional treatment so much in evidence in modern scenic design will be followed in the fall production, where actual construction of details of the sets will supplant painted mouldings and bookshelves...