Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stated that the heart keeps on beating for a variable but comparatively short time after the beats can no longer be elicited with the ordinary clinical means, but these beats, probably more correctly termed contractions, prove to be too feeble to pump the blood through the body. The fact resolves itself, that there was not any appreciable amount of blood transfused to have any significance upon the outcome in question, or that the person was not dead, or that the correspondent is considering the readers of TIME as individuals possessing a high gullibility coefficient...
...original subscribers to TIME?the inimitable. As such, I am especially interested in your aeronautical columns. While I am not seeking any gratuitous publicity for our city, I would like to mention the fact that recently Wilkes-Barre officially opened an airport which may truthfully be called the haven for fliers in the Alleghenies. Fliers, unless it has been absolutely necessary, have heretofore kept clear of this section because it lies on the outskirts of one of the most treacherous flying sections in the country. Treacherous, because there has never been a spot to set a ship down With...
...Rest assured it is not because I dislike being a year older!" flashed II Duce as he engaged the gears. "No?my reason is that nothing must interrupt the ordered rhythm of Fascist work. There are enough holidays on our Italian calendar already ?in fact too many!" and letting in his clutch the Dictator vanished, inconsistently, for a birthday holiday. Speeding to the seacoast he boarded a waiting seaplane, was soon soaring around the toe and heel of Italy, headed at last up the Adriatic in a flight of over 1200 miles...
From an airplane or airship many a blurred earthly detail is clear. European archeologists have utilized this fact in England, Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, Africa. In England flyers have spotted old Roman camps because grain growing on their sites had a distinguishably different tint from grain growing on less disturbed soil. In Mesopotamia the soil of filled-in Babylonian irrigation ditches showed a texture different from that of the surrounding soil...
...When you read the names of the following persons, what fact is immediately associated with them in your mind? Answer in one or two words in each case. Mendeleff, Davy, Perkin, Faraday, Curie, Priestley, Gay-Lussac, Dalton, Solvay, Ramsay, Lavoisier...