Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...point has generally been reached when the morale of the less well-armed Chinese soldiery gave way and the Chinese Government sued for peace on the best terms it could get. The heavy reverses China has now suffered on all fronts, neutral Shanghai observers balanced this week against the fact that Japan has taken three times as long as she originally scheduled to capture Shanghai, the fact that in the four months of this war Japan has now spent as much as she spent on the whole Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 which lasted 18 months...
This indisputable fact has lately achieved singular importance in Washington, for a flood of new construction might help stem the ebbing business tide, a notion which also occurred to Herbert Hoover in 1929. What President Roosevelt now proposed was to end the New Deal's power advance-provided the private powermen would accept his theories of rate-making. Since utilities are usually monopolistic, it is universally accepted that for the best public interest their rates should be established and regulated by law. The general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract...
Heine's placid father wanted him to be a comfortable merchant; his mother had more ambitious, vaguely social plans. As a result, the boy shuttlecocked from a Jewish cheder (rabbinical school) to a more aristocratic Jesuit Gymnasium, then back to a matter-of-fact business college, and finally to the University of Göttingen, where a wealthy uncle sent him to study law. He got his degree but never practiced. Instead, he hurried to Berlin, published there in 1822 a juvenile volume of poems, the Junge Leiden (Young Sorrows). "I got forty free copies." he wrote later...
...least one man is sorry I am no longer alive." Heine would have appreciated the joke which time has played on him. When the Nazi censors expunged his works, along with those of all other non-Aryans, from the roster of German literature, they were confronted with the unfortunate fact that he was the author of "Die Lorelei"-a song without which no German beer party is complete. The poem perforce remains in Nazi songbooks. its author blandly listed as "unknown...
Professor Dawes and his associates attempt to maintain close contact with their students; this is accomplished to a degree which is impossible in large engineering schools where a more standardized training is offered. That these policies are effective is evidenced by the fact that even during the lean years of the depression the graduates of the department of Electrical Engineering had no difficulty in finding satisfactory positions after graduation...