Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...purpose for which they were intended and some, at least, are of really fine quality. If any further evidence of this is needed, such artists as Rockwell Kent, Jon Corbino and Thomas Benton have expressed themselves as pleased with the reproductions of their own paintings. Mr. Benton, in fact, used our copies of his pictures for his own Christmas presents...
...final injustice, TIME quotes one critic as saying the paper upon which they are printed is cheap-an error of fact...
Last week, the only newsworthy item that emerged from either of the President's semiweekly press conferences was the fact that the President had not only contrived to sell five volumes of collected "State Papers" to Random House for publication next spring but that he had also sold the unpublished prefaces to each volume separately for publication to United Feature Syndicate. Meanwhile, the major White House news of the week, as usual, originated elsewhere...
While Hawley spoke of "the beginning of some elevated highway construction in cities before long," and mentioned the fact that it has been tried in small cities, he doubted if they could be economically justified. "Their cost will be in the neighborhood of $5,000,000 a mile in our larger cities, considering both construction costs and damages to abbutors, and then will be useful only to those having long distances to travel...
Leighton cited as the advantage of the scheme the fact that it would given students who came well-prepared a chance to carry on with more mature work and not be "levelled down" by the first year routine. The matter will be purely optional, but should help a large number of men who are eager to advance. Every year, Leighton reported, men who were well up in their studies and who had decided on their fields of concentration began a program of outside reading on their own initiative. It is hoped to give these men the benefit of advice...