Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Library and guiding visitors around the Yard, is currently considered Harvard's most outstanding quarter-miler, is on the board of The Guardian (new undergraduate magazine), is a member of the Dramatic Club and is on the Dean's List (high-standing students). In spite of the fact that he broke his arm when he was five and broke his back when he was 14, hence has to do special exercises before running, experts expect Jim Lightbody Jr. to equal the feats of his famed father...
...enter the church. The interior resembles a mosque rather than a church, as a matter of fact it is particularly like the Hagia Sophia.) There are no chairs, which produces a wonderful effect of space. There are also no images. There are only framed sentences on the walls (like those in the Hagia Sophia).† One of these sentences reads: "Do not flatter your benefactor." The same woman who nodded approval before to me begins to weep and says: "Then there is nothing left at all." I reply: "I think that is perfectly all right," but she vanishes...
...Sigmund Freud. Last year, lecturing at Yale University on "Religion in the Light of Science and Philosophy," tall, magnetic Dr. Jung let his listeners in on some of the dreams his work is made of. Last week his views were given wider currency, when his three closely-reasoned, fact-packed lectures* were published...
...week by the Port of New York Authority to advertise its newest tunnel. Meanwhile Travelers Insurance Co. was doing a little advertising of its own. Its 38-page booklet, addressed to those who wish to "make time," was grimly titled "Death Begins at 40." The title referred to the fact that automobile accidents which happen at speeds over 40 m.p.h. are more than twice as likely to be fatal as accidents that happen below that speed. Behind the booklet is last year's record road toll-40,300 dead. Dramatic centrepiece of "Death Begins at 40" is Grant Wood...
...Fact is that no frog can live by cutaneous respiration for more than a year. Common-sense consensus was that the Ellensburg frogs, actually garden variety, must have climbed into some narrow crack to hibernate, been washed down & down by seeping water to the extraordinary depth at which they were found...