Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constitution sets dues of 25 cents a month, and it was indicated that these would not be raised and might possibly be lowered. Many waitresses expressed willingness to pay dues, regardless of the fact that the Association is not empowered to represent them, on the grounds that it would keep the idea of an inside union alive in the dining-halls...
Thus last week spoke Dr. Harold Glenn Moulton, president of the Brookings Institution, before the annual meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers in Manhattan. No mere plaint against labor was Dr. Moulton's argument. It was in fact but the converse of a familiar thesis, that higher wages and shorter hours are necessary to compensate for technological progress. The cause of 1937's slump, said Dr. Moulton, was that there had been not enough increase in productive efficiency to compensate for the raising of wages and the simultaneous lowering of working hours...
...lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene and violent, free in her manner but irreproachable in her conduct, she was indolent, simple, with a streak of exuberance and humor that could be disconcerting to a prudent husband. They had been married for 15 years and, except for the fact that each blamed the other because they had no children, they were content...
...they win a larger following than perhaps they deserve. And if Benjamin Franklin could deplore the power of a grown man when he acquired "a Press, and a huge Pair of BLACKING BALLS," how much more dangerous are the caprices of irresponsible students. A thoughtless attack, a distortion of fact that may seem funny at the time, a vicious opinion purporting to state college sentiment, these are all within the power of college editors, and these are the things that can cut short a career, besmirch a character or hinder the work of an endowed institution...
...mould and crystallize that which is finest in undergraduate opinion, developing and stimulating undergraduate thought, while staying always one jump ahead of the college in pointing the way to reform. Ideally they are conscious of their obligation, as Dean Leighton once put it, "to be accurate in statements of fact, and cognizant of other possible views in statements of opinion...