Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Speed-reasonable and proper. An excess of 20 miles per hour in built-up districts and 35 elsewhere, presumptive evidence of a rate of speed unreasonable or improper." In fact should the wife of the passing motorist drive at this rate the State Police would more than likely require her presence before a judge...
...such a socio-political commotion that President Roosevelt thought it best to explain that Booker T. Washington had called while the President was just finishing his lunch and had been invited into the dining room "to save time." No such aftermath followed Mrs. De Priest's visit. In fact, almost before Washington started buzzing this time, George Akerson, the President's Secretary, issued a statement saying...
...Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone through with a unanimous cheer, but for the fact that Congressman Burtness, anxious to make a gesture pleasing to his many constituents of Scandinavian extraction, began his resolution with a flowery preamble which said, among other things...
...British press was most concerned last week with the annually recurring rumor of Edward of Wales's engagement. On this occasion the reigning favorite was Princess Ingrid of Sweden, 19, daughter of Sweden's Crown Prince, Gustaf Adolf. With nothing more concrete to go on than the fact that Princess Ingrid was visiting England for a month, that Edward of Wales's 35th birthday was imminent, that he once said that he would marry when he was 35, matchmaking editors embroidered and elaborated the story. The London press decided that the engagement would be announced...
This general tendency toward a higher scholastic level is the result of a definite attitude which has manifested itself during the past few years. It is a well known fact that all of the extra curricular activities have had fewer and fewer students show an interest in them. Certain fields have felt this more definitely than others, with the managerial competitions showing the largest decrease in numbers of candidates...