Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this field will probably be its influence on men who plan to go into business or public life. Architectural Science will, Dean Hudnut hopes, teach the importance of city planning, organization of public spaces, and all other expedients which will alleviate the deplorable conditions existing today. The very fact that the field will not take regional planning or housing in their technical contexts but only in their broadest implications increases its value...
...sides, is rearmament. Last week Banking declared that it would be a "Business stimulant of first importance in the immediate future." Like all spending, the blessings of rearmament are short-lived. It helped England for a year but last week England's plight was reflected in the fact that the pound sterling was under such pressure that the price of gold in London went to the highest level in history ($34.70). There were persistent rumors that further devaluation of the pound was the only recourse-and when Britain left the gold standard in 1931 the U. S. suffered...
Most significant news of last week's Exposition, however, was not Mercer or the price paid for him, but the fact that he was the 23rd Aberdeen-Angus to win the single steer Grand Championship. Most upstart of all U. S. cattle breeds, purebred Angus were first imported from Scotland in 1878 by the Lake Forest, Ill. cattle firm of Anderson & Findlay. Only a few years before, a white-haired Scottish landowner named William McCombie had developed the short-necked, squat, hornless, soot-black creatures. In Lake Forest, Anderson & Findlay's big Angus bull had soon serviced five...
...Staten Island ten years ago, Law Student Charles A. Mulligan Jr. was notified that he had passed his New York bar examination, was overwhelmed by congratulations from his friends. Then he was notified that it had all been a mistake- he had failed. Ashamed, he hid the fact, rapidly became a successful criminal lawyer. Recently he asked New York City's Mayor LaGuardia for appointment as a magistrate. Last week, after an investigation, he was indicted...
...publishers stress the fact that New England fishermen never go to sea without a copy, that the Massachusetts Supreme Court consults it for exact data, that it L; required reading in astronomy at Harvard and Smith. It went to 125,000 subscribers last year, many of them in cities. Says New Hampshire Governor Francis P. Murphy in a typical reader's testimonial: ". . . Just so long as The Old Farmer's Almanac keeps coming out regularly I shall be reminded that, after all, this world is in many ways the same old world that our fathers knew...