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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claimed by the report of the Freshman by-laws committee of the Council that the added month will give the electorate more time to consider the candidates. In fact, this added month will have no effect. Voters will still not know for whom they are voting, and Union Committee members or sports heroes will still be elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVADING THE ISSUE | 2/11/1938 | See Source »

Certainly cries for help were heard coming from the proximity of the bridge; witnesses attest to that. And one man contends that he saw Burgess drowning in the water, and directed him to hang on a little longer. Significance is also attached to the fact that the body when found was minus the suit coat...

Author: By F. ROCKWELL Hollands, | Title: Police Drop Burgess Case---Mystery Shrouds Death as Theories Persist | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

Stressing the fact that his is only a temporary solution Pennsylvania's chief executive specifically urged a three part spending program which would provide low cost housing, an extensive system of safe highways, and rural electrification. The masses must be made into customers, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOV. EARLE URGES MORE U.S. SPENDING AS ECONOMIC CURE | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

Looking around to see if the boss is looking, and finding him absorbed in something else, some of the boys clamber up the shaky wall, and disregarding the poignant fact that the bricks upon which they seek footholds may crumble away beneath them with unchivalric suddenness, they loop the cable around the highest point they can reach. Then, with the grace and recklessness of mountain goats they skip down to safety, shouting "Okay, John!" to the toothy pug seated in the driver's seat of the truck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hemenway Gymnasium Collapses Before Vicious Onslaughts of House Wreckers Who Cheer Wildy As They Tear It Down | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

...students the simile must read "rat bites underdog." An Economics A instructor marched into class during the reading period just bubbling over with high spirits and ideas. One idea was an hour exam and it did not go over so well with the class. In fact without any time out for deliberation they hissed him and his idea. But he hissed right back perhaps a less resounding hiss, but a much more cultured one, and the exam was held...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Overset | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

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