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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greater tribute can be paid to the artistry of Mr. Orson Welles and his company, than the fact, that on Sunday evening, for countless hundreds of sane normal people, something as fantastic as an invasion from Mars was reality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 21, 1938 | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Elmer Andrews and his staff issued tentative definitions (TIME, Oct. 31) and freely ladled out the hard-boiled advice: "When in doubt, comply." But the fact was that no one could give a final answer. A sizable segment of U. S. economic life is at the mercy of a law which only the courts can legally interpret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: No Cats | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...friend of Hacker's. In fact, Hacker calls Vag "the Duke" for reasons which Vag will not go into now. He first heard of Hacker when their mutual tutor in their sophomore year wondered where that guy Wilson was. There was a rumor to the effect that he played football. He was a jolly easy-going fellow, and Vag, as he watched the games that fall, never could quite understand how he could change so suddenly into a ferocious blocker and tackler on the field. He knows now. Three years of watching Hacker in the blocking slot have shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...better times come, he advises, and then make the repayments to investors in government bonds. Rogers points out that what is needed in a budget policy is a long-run rather than a short-run balance, and that after all "a year is a pretty arbitrary accounting period . . . In fact . . . it might be almost as rational to demand that the balance appear each month." The author concludes by warning that if no solution to these afflictions is forthcoming that capitalism is doomed. He presents his own "home remedies" for these evils necessarily brief and superficial, but which point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

Added to this the fact that Dan Melia, injured in the Winthrop game, will be back at guard strengthens the Eliot line considerably. Another addition to the Elephant ranks is halfback Don Donahue, a regular Freshman back last year, who promises to run wild against the Elis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Adams, Eliot Gridmen Play at New Haven Tomorrow in Wind-up Games | 11/17/1938 | See Source »

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