Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although elated over the fact that a Harvard man had dared to start, track coach Jaakko Mikkola said last night: "I would not advise any college student to try to run the B.A.A. Marathon, because he has not sufficient time to train...
...bonds than for those of a cotton mill, steel company or automobile factory. A reporter suggested that it might be done to protect insurance companies and others with large railroad holdings. There has been a lot of loose talk about that, snapped the President, when, as a matter of fact, banks and insurance companies generally make a practice of writing down their portfolios along with the decline in market value...
...most financial commentators at once concluded that this could mean but one thing, a resumption of hoarding. But Federal Reserve officials pooh-poohed the idea. According to them, one week's rise is insufficient evidence and may be only an accident. More likely explanation, said they, was the fact that sales last week were momentarily stimulated by the approach of Easter. For the week ending March 26 this year, which was the week before Easter last year, department store sales were off 18% from 1937. For the week ending April 2, which was two weeks before Easter this year...
Mark Twain covered the same ground and water 50 years ago, so readers were not surprised that Ben Burman's novels (Mississippi, Steamboat Round the Bend) did not come up to Huckleberry Finn; surprising was the fact that Author Burman should find as much good old-time stuff as he has. His best find yet, the shanty-boat hero of Blow for a Landing, though by no means as much of a fellow as Huck Finn, is at least of the breed...
Hicks has been branded a "Communist" and his appointment violently opposed by patriotic organizations and local political officials. The difference between the two cases lies in the fact that the Laski controversy was started by an issue of the Lampoon devoted to an attack on him, while no student group has come out against the Hicks appointment...