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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fact is, he quoted my own sentiments exactly. Fact is also, your answer will satisfy only that handful of "experts" who rate artistic pratique through some strange omniscient power to see Art in limp watches and nauseating distortions of the commonplace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Discovery of neatly fielded coat on the Long fellow bridge early Sunday morning, November 14 had been the original clue to Burgess' unaccounted for absence, and police attached a great deal of importance to this fact. It was realized that if a fight had taken place, the coat would not have been left in such an orderly state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burgess Suicide Theory Discarded by Police As Body Fails to Rise to Surface of Charles River | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...affirmative pointed out the advantage of compulsory arbitration in obviating the waste and violence of strikes and lock-outs. They cited the fact that of over 7000 cases heard by the NLRB, only 17 have been appealed to the courts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, VERMONT IN LABOR POLICY DEBATE | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...times excellent and at times downright boring. Barry Fitzgerald, as the disreputable cockney, almost holds the picture up on his own shoulders only to damp it by horribly overacting. Ray Milland and Miss Farmer supply the love interest, but neither get very excited over their emotion; in fact the former does not know how to walk on the screen, let alone act. As a mugger, however, Mr. Milland is tops to those who watched him to walk off with "The Gay Desperade." Most discouraging of all is Lloyd Nolan's completely unconvincing role as Atwater, the insane owner...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

...from the greenest Freshman to most august professor is required to show his books to these attendants as he leaves the library. This practice probably dates back to one of the librarians of the past century who, it is said, knew where every volume was at all times. In fact one fall evening this librarian was seen by one of his colleagues hurrying across the Yard in great agitation. On being asked the reason for his hurry, he said. "Every book is in the library but one. Dr. Jones has that book, and I'm going...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/27/1937 | See Source »

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