Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite all that Yale and her scholars can do to purify the English language, Harvard's pedantic phrases are ever with us. In fact they are so firmly entrenched at Cambridge that the Maintenance Department has just glorified a new exit in Sever Hall with the sign "Emergency Egress Only...
...these days of atheism, Communism, Hitlerism, and all the other "isms," the Vagabond cannot but wonder at the fact that the sale of Bibles still far surpasses that of metcoric best-sellers. Like its contents, the Bible remains constant, steady, year in, year out. Abuse it has had, and plenty of it. Incongruities are constantly being magnified and then challenged by students and by those who would tear down its precepts. Politicians of the boom-and-bellow school still mouth its apt passages as reason for, or argument against, their platforms. Men, worthy and unworthy, have been swept into office...
Over-the-counter market. "We have not forgotten the fact that the Act calls for regulation in the over-the-counter market similar to that in the Exchange field. We will press for that goal...
...John Jay Chapman was, might emerge from a mental merry-go-round of Roy Chapman Andrews, John Hay, Gerald Chapman and John Hays Hammond with the guess that he was anything from a diplomat to a gunman; his times anything from the early eighteen hundreds to the present day. Fact is, he was a law-trained, wealthy politicaster, Manhattan-born, Harvard-bred and of old New England stock, who never held public office but was rampant in all the reform movements around the century's turn; who wrote widely and voluminously on subjects ranging from children's plays...
...debating at Harvard the significance of such reforms lies in the fact that the Debating Council has recognized two elemental characteristics of human nature; that every man is a debater at heart, but that he is likewise apt to be bound by inertia. It has announced a plan whereby the inexhaustible wealth of government and philosophy section orators may be brought within the scope of organized debating. It has seen in the breasts of many men in the impersonal public speaking courses a burning desire to take part in organized debating. It has realized that it can offer a laboratory...