Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...outside coach creates an exhausting drain on the athletic fund and it is often the case that he is a member of the faculty for purely financial reasons. In many of the larger private schools the coach is in closer communion with his pupils because of the mere fact that the administrator of the playing field overshadows the bookworm, at least in the eyes of youth...
...interested in the editorial on History 2 which you printed, and in Professor Langer's reply. It is perhaps superfluous to reopen the subject, as I have nothing in particular to offer, but I do wish to express the fact that the course aroused in myself at times something of the spirit in which I believe your editorial was written. It may not, as Professor Langer demonstrates, accord with the facts, but there was certainly much about the course to exasperate the student. The combination of assignments of considerable, though not for this university unique, length, with breath-taking...
Another problem (recited by Dr. Klein): "The small retailer. . . . Most of them may be careless, shortsighted and therefore shortlived (commercially speaking). . . . Admittedly many of them ought not to be in business. . . . In Louisville the costly perils of careless retailing were shown in the fact that 30 grocery stores failed in that city each month and 32 new ones opened up. . . . A recent analysis of the restaurant business in Kansas City showed that of some 1,080 such establishments in 1928, 551 went out of business and almost exactly, the same number of new ones opened up. . . . If the present average...
...Ordered not a single drink of vodka, last week, despite the fact that, for the first time since the War, the wine and spirit list of the House of Commons bars was revised to include "Finest Russian Liqueur Vodka . . . is. 6d" [36?]. Wags insisted that this innovation was for the benefit of the new Soviet Ambassador, expected soon in London (see above...
There is no sovereign in the world who has so many personal servants as the Pope. In the inner courtyard of St. Damascus this fact was gorgeously demonstrated to little King Vittorio Emanuele and his tall white spouse. Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres. In a knot of red, pink, crimson, purple and white, stood the Grand Master of the Holy Hospice, the Secret Almoner, the Pope's Sacristan, Secret Chamberlains, Knights of the Cape and Sword, Noble Guards, Cardinals, Lay Gentlemen-in-Waiting...