Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When questioned about university dramatics, Welles said, "It seems that a good proportion of the members of both the American and English stage have served their apprenticeship in college and school dramatics. As a matter of fact, college dramatics seem to be almost a stepping-stone to success in the theatre. As for myself, I guess I am the exception to the rule; for I have had only four years of schooling in my life...
...some form of cooperative commonwealth-the civilization of eco-lomic abundance, democratic behavior and integrity of expression which is now po-entially available." To reduce this mouth-filling program to concrete terms and tell exactly how the schools may accomplish it without delay is not easy. It is, in fact, too difficult for Rugg & Co. Their 530-page book reviews hopefully the spread of Progressive Education in the U. S. but concludes that Progressive Education has not gone far enough, that U. S. schools must function much more democratically and study contemporary problems much more realistically than any school does...
...before leading Metropolitan's self-made Chairman Frederick H. Ecker onto the floor, Bill Douglas reassured the 64,000,000 people in the U. S. with life insurance policies (45% of them with Metropolitan). Said he: "No policyholder need have any concern that any fact brought out in this inquiry will in any way jeopardize the protection which he counts upon...
What the Professor overlooks is the Fascist army mobilized at the border, the fact that his Cabinet is riddled with Fascists, that his mistress is a Fascist spy. Though he is warned by his son and a mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches on, the Fascist armies are rolling in and the Professor is in prison, marked for execution "while attempting to escape." In plot, The Professor might be called downright hackneyed, but no anti-fascist novel has contained more skilful individual scenes-the Professor looking over a display of stylish gas masks...
...most fundamental drawback to the plan is the fact that there is, at present; no trophy. If "athletics for all" is to be furthered, some kind alumnus must donate a trophy whose slight cost would be infinitesimal compared to the good it would do in spurring each Harvard undergraduate on to develop a "mens sana in corpore sano...