Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doesn't mean, that if there is a conference, we will take any action," he said, "but the indication that we would even go into such a conference is a significant fact...
...large, well known university or college to install a new head is an event of interest; but for three schools to choose the same day to inaugurate new regimes is unusual. It is not an easy task to find men capable of running institutions worth millions of dollars. The fact that three such men, Charles Seymour at Yale, James Phinney Baxter at Williams, and Edmund Day at Cornell, have shown the necessary qualifications for these exacting positions, is vital in itself. It shows that right now, this year, there are being produced and are available men of highest intellectual type...
Despite the fact that time has tempered the surprise and disappointment occasioned during the summer months by Dr. Dennett's resignation, the full extent of Williams' loss is made apparent by thoughtful consideration. For three years Dr. Dennett drove himself as hard as any man could to push Williams toward the ideal he set as its goal. Dynamic, farsighted, and attentive to details, he met and solved problems of vital importance to the college. One has only to compare the position held by the college today with that of three years ago to realize the magnitude of the tasks...
...proved to be a veritable training school for most of the country's best younger climbers, and Durand pointed with pride to the fact that of the eight men who formed an expedition to climb Nanda Devi, highest scaled peak in the world, six were members or former members of the club. The other were from the British Alpine Club...
...Nantucketers succeeded in shooting lines over the vessel, but the men on board were too frozen to pull the attached hawser. More dreary hours passed, while one after another of the shipwrecked men perished. The crowds on shore, eager but powerless to help, were moved by the grim fact that they stood within speaking distance of death...