Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knowing that Italian males have been prone to "go native" with Ethiopian females, issued a veiled but stern decree for punishment of "anyone who performs any act that might injure the prestige of the Italian people in territories of the Empire." Finally, the Grand Council, taking cognizance of the fact that Britain has for years been extremely reluctant to admit more Jews to Palestine, because of the bloody resistance of the Arabs (see p. 22), made a tentative gesture. "Dependent upon the attitude toward Fascism assumed by Jews in the World as a whole." the Grand Council announced that...
...travel cinema than the spectacle of a group of African natives dressed in last week's laundry and chewing old twigs, it is the spectacle of the same African natives abusing a tame lion, which the sound track describes as a man-eating monster. The cinema has, in fact, covered the subject of Africa so frequently and so badly that cinemaddicts might be excused for believing that the whole terrain must be at once less worthy of attention and more thoroughly photographed than any other place on earth, outside of Hollywood. One certain effect of Dark Rapture will...
...babe." 5) "something which shines round the quiet tomb?" Is a motorcar 1) a bag of potatoes, 2) a hollyhock, 3) a flying cloud, 4) the sound of the sea? That these questions are likely to be received with awe instead of derision is largely due to the fact that the author was Ivor Armstrong Richards, a founder of the modern science of semantics (the meaning of language...
German art historians have already explained away German medieval art, which is anything but naturalistic, as, in the words of Herr Alfred Rosenberg, "turned away from its sources by Catholicism." But. in his demand for neoclassic art in Germany, Führer Hitler did not refer to the fact that Raphael Mengs (1728-79), founder of the German neoclassic school, was half...
...notes now totaling $15,000,000 were on deposit for exchange. Nickel Plate's President George D. Brooke, however, declared the extension plan operative. Next day, prices of the notes skyrocketed to 84, new 1938 high and 23¼ points above the previous day's close. The fact that price gyrations occurred several hours before official statements were issued prompted both SEC and the New York Exchange to start investigating the whole affair...