Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dyer heaving the weights. What Coach Bill Neufeld called "the outstanding performance of the meet" was Jack McClure's 51.6 win in the Quarter for the Deacons, as Dave Gooder brought Lowell a second by a gallant home-stretch fight. Neufeld also declared himself well satisfied with the fact that 108 men participated out of which number 51 placed...
Completely proved at the outset was the fact that GHQ A. F. could assemble a scattered force at unfamiliar airports within a minimum of time. Most spectacular feat in this phase was the transcontinental movement of 945 men. 42 planes, by Brigadier General Delos C. Emmons' First Wing, normally based at March and Hamilton Fields, Calif. Brash, toughly amiable General Emmons, whom many of his comrades look upon as a likely successor to Commanding General Andrews when the latter retires, transformed 16 Douglas bombers into transports, shuttled them and their pilots as many as eight times across the continent...
...sincerity is to be tested by the length of time involved in the negotiations, their frequency and the persistence with which the employer offers opportunity for agreement. . . . We deem it necessary to re-emphasize the obligation which rests upon the board as a quasi-judicial tribunal. The very fact that . . . the board files the complaint, hears the complaint through its examiner, and then makes a decision thereon, requires it with scrupulous impartiality to evaluate the evidence presented on behalf not only of the employes but also of the employer...
...ring, and sometimes hit a referee by mistake. Because he had been hailed as the most colorful fisticuffer since John L. Sullivan, 10,000 curious fight fans turned out to watch his well-publicized antics. But they made him a 4-to-1 underdog, in spite of the fact that he had never been knocked down in his eight-year career, had knocked out his four most recent opponents (Al Ettore, Leroy Haynes, Lorenzo Pack and Charley Massera...
...Last November the Museum of Modern Art held an exhibition called "Paintings for Paris." The eminent artists invited had been allowed to send their own choices. The show as a whole was a dud, unrepresentative, swank and dull. Nothing better indicates the quality of the Paris exhibition than the fact that of 46 paintings shown last autumn only five are among the 120 contemporary pictures now in Paris. And nothing shows better the character of the man chiefly responsible for the exhibition...