Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know what special attraction Rose Marie has for the King," said a member of the manager's staff at Drury Lane, "unless it is that His Majesty likes the tunefulness of the play and the fact that there is nothing in the text to cause embarrassment or uncomfortableness...
...point of fact Mr. Thomas presented a definite and constructive if in no way brilliant scheme. He proposed to tap the Exchequer for approximately $90.000.000 to be spent on digging reservoirs, building roads and other public works. Further he envisioned Government assistance to several British railways and the London Underground (subway), which would enable them to employ workmen on "improvements" (electrification of steam trackage, new tunnels) costing upwards...
After showing off his talkie-phone, Mr. Grace demonstrated the newly Bell-discovered physiological fact that the human ear drum and surrounding tissues act in the same manner as the condenser plate of a radio receiver. He stuck one of his fingers into an ear of one of his audience, modulated a high frequency current by speaking into a transmitter, let the modulated current pass through his body to his finger tip to the man's ear. The man "heard" Mr. Grace's words. The man felt as though he were thinking Mr. Grace's phrases...
...revival and married her because she was a Christian and lived as God wanted her to. We said grace at each meal. At breakfast one morning the idea occurred to me to kill her for fear she might stray from the Christian life. This plan was strengthened by the fact that I soon lost my job and was unable to care...
...will be difficult, in fact it will be next to impossible, to convince the officials, the alumni, and the adherents of the small colleges that they are pursuing a course entirely divergent from the trend of progressive and modern education--that they cannot hope to compete on an equal footing with the larger universities in teaching. Sentiment, tradition, and college loyalty are factors against which even the most logical arguments can hardly hope to prevail. These intangible feelings alone are a guarantee of the continuance of the small college, and their disbanding may be considered a thing...