Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crowninshield that he had just found the ideal art director for his U. S. string of swank magazines. The latest candidate had clinched the job by the calm disdain with which he dismissed able, dapper Publisher Nast's theories on illustration and makeup. This Young Turk was in fact a young Turk, by name Mehemed Fehmy Agha. That was ten years ago. Last week PM, the lively little magazine for production managers and art directors, devoted its latest issue to Agha's American Decade. Its "paeans with pictures from colleagues and disciples" demonstrated how great has been, still...
...fact, if I can help...
...Month I of War II U. S. production jumped from 102% of the 1923-25 average to 110. Beginning of Month II, production was around 115, headed for the 1937 peak of 118. Guarantee of its getting there is the fact that the output of U. S. industry is sold out until the end of the year, that most industries have stopped booking orders, are concentrating on making deliveries...
...rifle got too hot to handle; then you opened the bolt and blew down the barrel and let it cool, resting your face on your extended arm, waiting. You got so you were afraid to lift your head again to fire. . . . And then you suddenly awoke to the fact that you had been asleep in the line itself...
...timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his famous "hollow shot" No to a marriage proposal? The fact is that Thoreau's own writings contain just about all there is on Thoreau...