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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point of fact, since the month of July 1938, I have demanded of the Fox Co. that the scenario and the film itself should be submitted to me, and I have not received any satisfaction from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Often has it been pointed out that the British made two sets of conflicting promises, one to the Arabs, another to the Jews, for Palestine. Author Antonius does not lay the conflicting promises as much to British duplicity as to the fact that the British left hand often was ignorant of what the right hand was doing. The Foreign Office, the India Office, the War Office, the Admiralty, the Arab Bureau in Cairo all had hands in the Arab negotiations. Moreover, says the author, "it behooves the Arabs to remember that war and rectitude are not natural companions." He asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PALESTINE: Arab Case | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...three Nacista members of the Chamber of Deputies is part German. Admittedly, the party supported storm troops. There was no denying that members occasionally wore greyish-brown shirts and overseas caps. Indeed, they did go about saluting each other with raised arms. Sometimes it is a fact, they drilled. Yes, they once took to the streets to fight the Communists. No good Nacista would deny that he was fanatically nationalistic. There was even a bare possibility that the word Nacista was derived from the party's original full name, Movimiento Nacional Socialista. Nazi came from National Socialist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Mistaken Identity | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...radio receiving sets in Germany, some 5,000,000 are equipped to receive short-wave broadcasts. Not generally known is the fact that the U. S. has quietly entered the short-wave news propaganda battle. Every day in the week for the past year and a half, NBC's 25-kilowatt W 3 XL, its power stepped up to the equivalent of some 150 kilowatts by a directional beam antenna, has sent in the direction of Germany's 5,000,000 shortwave receivers an hour of news, music and Americana calculated to reach Germans between eight and nine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: For German Ears | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...street, followed by a carefully composed etching. Models for her final, slowly and delicately built paintings are always girls found in the neighborhood, never professionals. The thing she feels about them and tries to communicate in her painting, she says, is their "mobility in life." the very fact that they do not belong irrevocably to a certain class, that anything may happen to them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bishop's Progress | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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