Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that resignations or deaths have cost the English department six full professorships in the last few years, all of which have not been filled, no immediate additions are planned to the present staff of eight...
...mere fact that the Corporation will conduct its enquiry means that at the present time no criteria for the use of halls exist. If this is so, however, Browder has been excluded without reason. Certainly the Corporation fails to specify any reason--unless by inference it is resting its case on the weak excuse previously advanced by Mr. Greene. In the absence of any verbal justification of the action, the suspicion grows that Browder is a persona non grata to Harvard authorities for more reasons than his passport peccadilloes...
Unfortunately, Betty Grable has to wear a few clothes; in fact, during the French court scenes, she has to wear a hoop skirt. Such superfluous drapery is the worst sort of nuisance to this particular bundle of joy, for gentlemen, those pictures you've seen don't lie. She provides the visual stimulus, while Ethel Merman tickles the erotic funnybone. Ethel could put over a song to a deaf mute and teach the facts of life to a Trappist monk by gestures alone. And also, there's Bert Lahr, who seems to have brought the Lahr leer...
...furthering of the Allied cause as a defense of American democracy. This, too, has yet to be conclusively shown; maybe British propaganda agents will be forced to prove it soon. But in any case, the basis of such a program for education here appears to be the old "one fact and a prejudice...
Although impartial observers claim that over ninety per cent of contemporary newspaper publishers never went out for the Crimson, the fact remains that no less a man than James Bryant Conant (Crimson '13) has been heard to say that--for a certain type of man--the Crimson is more valuable than any regular curricular work. It is unfortunate that Harvard's president never went on to specify what certain type of man he was referring to; however, after delving deep into the depths of its morgue the Crimson board finally is able to clarify this statement...