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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course the United States government has no intention of violating the traditional sanctity of extraterritorial privileges. No rights ordinarily granted to mere congressmen would be denied to the representatives of the powers of the earth. In fact there is little fear of the United States prohibition enforcement unit even among those not native to these shores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STORM AND STRESS | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Senator Edge, already the diplomat: "Charlie, the fact that you will be just across the Channel in London almost persuades me to apply for the Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Plumb to Hell | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

Young's* international bank is surely a wow. The rest of us plowboys and sons of mechanics were trying to figure out just why a private American individual was mixing in foreign national squabbles in perfect busybody fashion when we tumbled to the fact that Young, as a G. E. tai-kun† is just the gerant* *; of his master, J. Pierrepont Morgan,†† of private gangplank fame. The latter is certain to be found hovering where dollars are thickest-like buzzards over carrion-voilà tout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 27, 1929 | 5/27/1929 | See Source »

That the Oregon team was playing unusually good golf is testified to by the fact that Palmberg, number 3 man, broke the course record with a 6S, par being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOLF TEAM LOSES FIRST HALF OF TELEGRAPHIC ENCOUNTER | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

Psychologically also, courses should receive less emphasis because they tend to substitute a near end for a far end, and blur the student's purpose. As is generally admitted, working for factual course examinations induces memorizing. It emphasizes the method of studying for fact rather than for understanding, because course examinations are apt to be matters of fact. Thus the course system, in the handgrip mouth method of study it inculcates, hinders the student working for a general examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Post-War Depression | 5/24/1929 | See Source »

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