Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...type of crew man for a boat was almost entirely a matter of contemporary style, and that the best crew man did not necessarily have to confine himself to any particular build. His knowledge was based not only on his long association with crew but upon the fact that while he was a Captain of the Columbia crew he helped to nurse the sport out of its infancy...
From China, James left for Spain after spending a few additional months in the southern part of China. he became a correspondent behind the Loyalist lines; in fact, he claims that every warring country had better look out if he should be its newspaper correspondent, because he infallibly seems to bring bad luck. Both armies with which he worked have been the losers...
...attained it would be necessary to break the back of economic power. It would be necessary for the government to adopt extreme measures such as completely confiscatory inheritance taxes. It is true that Mr. Conant briefly takes cognizance of these problems, but he vastly under-rates them. The fact remains that it is impossible automatically to redistribute power and privilege at the end of each generation unless there is a simultaneous radical redistribution of wealth...
...indiscreet to carp at the plot of a musical comedy, but it is nothing short of a criminal offense for the authors of a show, in this case Messrs. Nicholson and Robinson, to deprive a trouper like Bert Wheeler of even the smallest semblance of a comic line. In fact, throughout the whole show there is a singular lack of hilarity...
...long thereafter (in 1923) he retired, set about meeting all the poets. Plutocrat Amy Lowell charmed him by providing her guests with bath towels to spread across their knees in defense against her 17 slavering sheepdogs. In Rapallo he found a note at his hotel from Ezra Pound: "The fact that your taste in poetry is exectable shouldn't prevent us from having a vermouth together...