Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hate having to write this book. Air raids are not only wrong. They are loathsome and disgusting. If you had ever seen a child smashed by a bomb into some-thing like a mixture of dirty rags and cat's meat you would realize this fact as intensely...
...Flattens Everything!" An ardent Leftist, Professor Haldane says that "a British Labor or Popular Front Government" might have ordered taken long ago the precautions he now recommends. He ignores the fact that Moscow has not taken them, that the French Popular Front, after studying the reports of its many-agents in Spain, adopted the same "evacuation strategy" as British Home Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare. Apart from his plunge into politics and recriminations, Scientist Haldane gives many objective, personal accounts of his sensations under bombing in Spain...
...present time motorcars kill 5,000-6,000 people per year, and measles 2,000-3,000. And in view of the fact that people tolerate fast motorcars, and readily preventable diseases, their great objection to being bombed from the air is an interesting psychological fact...
...announce dramatically that Leftist Spain, which has been sending home its foreign volunteers for several weeks past, will now send the last of them home (see below), and only asks the League of Nations to send a commission to Spain to verify this fact. The cautious Assembly did not at once appoint the commission requested by Dr. Negrin, but he was cheered for having struck a purely idealistic note "proving that the League is not dead...
Arrival of this thinker pointed the fact that U. S. theological Modernists (counterparts of ideological Liberals) are at last awaking to the essential weakness of their position: they have based their theology on emotion rather than intellect, have sought truth with their nerves rather than with their minds...