Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from going in the direction one really wishes it to go. With this in mind, consider a hog's tiny hoofs, supporting a body bigger than man's. Then imagine the hog on slippery ice, where his complete natural perversity and unpredictableness is further complicated by the fact that he has no control of his feet...
...this week in London, is to persuade the German Government to allow refugee Jews to carry out of the country most of their property or cash. Despite warm words of idealism doled out at Evian-les-Bains few weeks ago when the permanent Organization was set up, the hard fact remains that no nation is willing to receive penniless Jews...
...ready to believe the problem "insoluble" last week was U. S. Pundit Dorothy Thompson, whose publishers seized the occasion to release her 122-page, fact-packed book, Refugees: Anarchy or Organization?*. No secret is it that Miss Thompson's magazine and newspaper crusade stimulated President Roosevelt to call the Evian meeting. Into her book Newspundit Thompson crams a survey of the post-War history of the refugee problem and a grandiose proposal to deal with...
...Gabby Hartnett, in his 17 years, has played under six of them, has become a smart handler of pitchers, a shrewd observer of men. Even Dizzy Dean once admitted that Gabby Hartnett was the only baseballer that was "smarter than me." But astute Owner Wrigley, well aware of the fact that brilliant ball players seldom have been successful as managers, did not give fun-loving Catcher Hartnett a new contract with his new job until the Cubs had tucked away a few victories...
...adjoining map shows how (Texas excluded) the South's six biggest industrial centres have grown since 1914. That Louisville grew most is due partly to tobacco, partly to liquor, and partly to the fact that, lying on the Ohio, it does not suffer from the freight-rate disparities which Governors of other Southern States last week were protesting...