Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing I like about the Oxford Group approach is the fact that they say to me, "All right, we agree that present conditions are bad, but how about starting with you? Are you part of the problem or are you part of the answer?" The way they ask the question, however, makes a great deal of difference. They do not ask it in a belligerent or combative tone, but in a tone which has a kindly approach, which disarms antagonism, and leads to constructive cooperation...
...overconfident. The Yale "News" quotes Bob Kiphuth, Yale coach, as saying that Harvard has the best swim squad in the East this year. The metropolitan newspapers frequently flash large headlines acclaiming Harvard as possibly the strongest team in the country. Whether these and other optimistic predictions are based on fact can be proved only in the tank for the next few Saturdays...
Fritz isn't a mystery man any longer; in fact, he hasn't been ever since the first time trials were held. Down at the pool, they all know he's good. He beat Jameson in the Alumni meet December 16. Of course, Jamie was out of condition, but the time for the breast was 1:07, which is not to be sneered at when the season's just beginning and the swimmer has just changed over to breast-stroke...
...curses out his daughter in the roundest of terms, and goes out to get drunk for the last time he can pay for. The son, who has become a neurotic one-armed cripple in the violent so-called service of his country, turns out to be equally base. In fact, the play almost reduces to a eulogy of woman as the great creator and preserver, and subscribes to the doubtful thesis that men alone make hate and bloodshed...
Asked about chess prospects at Harvard, Foster replied, "They are excellent." Then, mentioning the fact that many Chess Club members have distinguished themselves in this field in later life, he went on to say that although the match with C.C.N.Y. had been unavoidably cancelled there would probably be a match with Columbia University in the spring...