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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas Edison's son, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, the President last week authorized bids for one about half the size and cost authorized by Congress. Limited in length to 325 feet, in gas capacity to 1,000,000 cubic feet, the new ship will in fact be little more than an experiment helpful to future commercial development and perhaps useful for coast patrol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hopeful Experiment | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...influence in East Europe. The shades of British Imperialists from Good Queen Bess to Rudyard Kipling must have paled perceptively. But an optimist to pessimists, and others, Neville Chamberlain said: "China cannot be developed into a real market without the influx of a great deal of capital, and the fact that so much capital is being destroyed during the war means that even more will have to be introduced after the war is over. It is quite certain that it cannot be supplied by Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Business of Government | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...well-established fact of genetic science is that certain characteristics tend to be transmitted in groups. In Dr. Dunn's rats, for example, all of the soft-skeletoned individuals also have pink eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Refugee Rats | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...because the Board of Education was penniless, owed $61,936 and saw no money coming in before 1939. First screwy move to reopen the schools was an injunction issued by a common pleas judge. It was withdrawn when the schools stayed closed and the judge became impressed with the fact that schools cannot be run without money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Dayton Dilemma | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...According to Belgian Le Soir, the Pope wept while denouncing anti-Semitism-a fact which the Vatican would neither confirm nor deny. Lately the Brooklyn Tablet has taken the U. S. secular press to task for reporting the Holy Father's occasional tears, on the ground that such reports are meant to "confuse" U. S. readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Egregious Protocols | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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