Word: factly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cabinet authority, and possibly without knowing what he was doing. Right Honorable Tom blandly remarked that holders of British War Bonds are receiving too high a rate of interest: "They are getting $500,000,000 a year to which they have not the slightest moral right! . . . That is a fact that has got to be faced before this country can be put on its feet again...
...Harvard scholar (TIME, April 29). Newsprint at $60 the ton was impossible! President Graustein had columns of figures at the tip of his tongue. Speaking with the authority of a half-billion-dollar corporation, he was ready to prove his point. A spur to his arguments was the uncomfortable fact that I. P. & P. had a four-year contract to supply Publisher William Randolph Hearst with newsprint at a price range of $50 to $55 a ton, and breaking a contract with Publisher Hearst is a difficult matter...
...sorry to say that I look toward the future with great concern. We cannot ignore the fact that according to von Seeckt's theory,* motorized German shock troops leaving Aachen at 8 p. m. could be at Brussels at 5 a. m. the next day without having met Belgian troops. . . . The population as a whole has behaved well except youths, who, apparently incited by their schoolmasters, resorted to tricks that impelled me to abandon riding or marching through the streets...
...their members that an effort would be made to solve this problem by supplying food from the College kitchens to the various club houses. This plan has since been found to be impractical. Nothing definite can be said of the fate of the clubs at present except for the fact that those in charge of working out the House Plan are in sympathy with the general aims of the clubs and appreciate their potential value in bringing men from the different Houses together...
...fact, the Vagabond is happy enthusiastically to declare Lowell House a success to date. If he can afford the rent, he intends later on to climb five flights to paradise on the sixth floor. Blow the winds as they may, in this remote retreat he will still have one eye on the works...