Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adjustment of complete continence, approved by families, schools, churches and social opinion, is practiced in fact by only a minority of youth...
...fact that Englishman Hayter was in Spain while Spaniard Dali was getting up a show of dream-constructed knickknacks in Paris (TIME, Feb. 7) remained a paradox last week. There was no mystery, however, about Madrid's hospitality to Artist Hayter...
...motorist rides on some 200.000 miles of hard-surfaced roads, one-fifth of the earth's total. Nevertheless, last week no less than three plans for another 17,000 miles of U. S. "super highways" were under serious Congressional consideration. In fact, under the pressure of Depression II, the approaching national primaries and the old, old political appetite for pork, these plans were even getting serious consideration at the White House...
...superhighway intersections. Nor does Representative Snyder overlook patronage possibilities. He would have the Government let the job to private contractors in sections no less than 10 miles long. Unlike Senator Bulkley, Congressman Snyder would run his superhighways through large cities, where votes are most plentiful. In fact, two of his superhighways rather obviously jog to make an intersection at Uniontown, Pa., in Mr. Snyder's home district...
Clearly, if Franklin Roosevelt meant to regulate all prices up & down to fit his theory, he was launching his Administration on the biggest thing in planned economy it had yet attempted. But to the 125 reporters, perspiring after the longest press conference in months, the most striking fact was that he had proposed no legislation...