Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress would approve any postal rate increase now. Said he, who used to be a publisher himself (Concord Evening Monitor): "I do not see how we can increase the first-class rates, since we made the mistake of reducing them after the War." The Senator objected to the fact that religious, fraternal and scientific periodicals-some 6,000 of them-pay the post office for distribution only one-third the rate required of commercial publications. Naming names, he declared: "There is no reason why the Christian Science Monitor or the Elks Magazine or the National Geographic magazine, all of which...
...ultimately presented the Latins' written offer gave Great Britain an increase of $6,500,000, annually in her share of what the creditor powers receive in reparations. Surprisingly enough the major part of this concession was made not by France but by Italy, a fact the more notable because the Italian chief delegate, Finance Minister Antonio Mosconi, has not had a free hand, but has been forced to keep in hourly telegraphic touch with Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, no softie...
...matter-of-fact fashion the editor of Ceske Slovo announced that he could now tell what took place in Belgrade last spring at the annual and, as usual, deathly secret conference of "Little Entente" statesmen...
Never before did a foreign yacht win all its races in U. S. waters. U. S. yachtsmen consoled themselves with the fact that the 30-square meter specifications required in this regatta, long common in Germany and Sweden, have rarely been met by U. S. designers before this year...
Cause of academic commotion for or against it is probably that most of the book is based on ethic rather than fact. A few not-so-original remedies are suggested for a few situations. A situation: from a young husband, hampered by modern working conditions such as feminine competition, young wife gets support too poor to permit much breeding. Reed remedy: "Upon the completion of an important piece of work for the state, men are paid for their service, and there is no reason why women should not receive comparable recognition [per bab]." Some other subjects treated: the Evolution...