Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morgenthau, knowing that silver and politics have been well-mixed for over half a century, was playing innocent-as he was last week when he refused to confirm the obvious fact that he was now mixing silver and oil. For the wording of his statement made it perfectly clear that he had withdrawn his subsidy in retaliation for President Cárdenas' seizure of $400,000,000 worth of foreign oil investments (TIME, March 28). The action had been taken, said the Secretary, "in view of the decision of the Government of the United States to re-examine certain...
...strange fact that the judges were hearing these speeches for the first time, they must necessarily have listened quite as much to the material as to the actual delivery...
...smart enough to know how to be an amateur when the occasion demands, Bill) and he's burned up every league he's ever been in. There is the usual catch in this case, Bill, as in every other, viz, the boy's a little dumb, in fact he is awful dumb. What will we do? What will we do? Write me quick, because I've got to sign him up quick. You must know some way of getting him in and once we do we'll keep him there somehow. I asked him if he'd like to play...
Disclosure of the group was a matter of good fortune, depending on the fact that an abnormally sensitive photographic plate chanced to be focused on Sculptor on a very clear night. The photograph on which the system was found was taken at the Harvard astronomical observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa...
...Crimson based its case for the amendment on the fact that present specific legislation designed to benefit workers has in many cases actually thrown many women out of work and cited many examples of civil rights being denied to women by state and local governments...