Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tufts College defeated Harvard in a wrestling match staged last night at Medford by a score of 21 to 15. The victory was decisive, but the fact that Tufts had defeated Amherst. M. I. T., and Springfield had indicated the strength of Harvard's opponent...
Miss Cowl expressed pride in the fact that she holds two Shakespearian records: first for the most performances of any Shakespearian role, which she holds as a result of 698 performances of Juliet; and second, for the presentation of Juliet seven times a week a thing which she did frequently but which no other actress has ever attempted because of the physical and emotional strain of the role...
...people as it is possible without making the standards ridiculously low. By the theory of Dean McConn, a few would acquire a great amount of erudition, but the vast majority would get only a superficial knowledge, too scant to be of any value whatsoever. Another apparent fault is the fact that the one half of one percent of super-students would be entirely excluded from contact with actual experience and the other people of lesser intelligence. The inevitable result would be that when released from this turkish bath of learning they would lack the practicability to apply their knowledge...
...Hoover shows his vision by recognizing that it is prevention rather than cure of unemployment that is needed, and that definite plans, based on fact, must be laid far in advance for dealing with this problem. Obviously, if unemployment is to be dealt with constructively, it is necessary to have some measurement of its extent. At the present time, however, there are practically no dependable statistics collected in the United States on unemployment. In the winter of 1927, for example, extensive discussion took place in Congress and elsewhere regarding the current unemployment, but to this day no one knows even...
...Americans, a still more furious storm threatens on the horizon. According to a recent dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, an American connoisseur of art has carried from the shores of France no less than a historic relic of primary importance, a monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet to rise in righteous anger...