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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe one or two, will be allowed to drive his car, in doing which he endangers the lives of citizens. The fact that a man who has had but a small amount of intoxicating liquor does not realize the gravity of the situation is one of the definite evils of the whole affair. The ill that may result to oneself from excess drinking, is not half so bad as that which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANTI - PROHIBITIONISTS HURL DEFI AT HOOVER | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

Something like this has been said before. The banker believes that college life develops "lazy habits of thinking," that it is too soft and easy. Yet the fact remains that many Wall Street houses give preference to college men as beginners, and the percentage of men with collegiate training who have done well in business and finance in New York City must be very high. Yet there must be times when, puzzled how to decide among the qualifications of more boys than there is room for, Dean Gauss and Dean Hoermance wish that Mr. Carlisle might win a few prosolytes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Are College Years Wasted | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...completing the new Gymnasium were set forth in the CRIMSON last Spring to an extent which makes further review unnecessary. The delay in finally employing these funds in accordance with these ideas may probably be explained by the hope of the Corporation for further subscriptions from Alumni. The fact that there is a pressing need for funds in many departments which are not self-supporting can only increase the satisfaction over the present decision to make this perfectly legitimate use of the Associations surplus funds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CORPORATION ACTS | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

...fact that they were both school-boys, one sixteen and one seventeen,--the fact that the former died from injuries sustained in a football game, and that the latter shot himself because he doubted his ability to pass his studies and continue to star on the football field -proves. It would seem, that the anti-football argument is not without some basis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOOTBALL FATALITIES | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...socialists, who find themselves embarrassed on one hand by the relations existing between Harvard University, which presumably prepares men to go out and create better civilization, and West Point, which trains men to sweep that civilization off the face of the earth, and on the other hand by the fact that the business department of the Harvard Athletic Association has invited here the West Point cadets in the name of the student body, no demonstration will take place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Socialist Club Will Not Stage Anti-Army Demonstration on Day of West Point Game--Officers Issue Statement | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

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