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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Based upon no other authority than the fact I was an officer in the American Air Service in France for 20 months during World War I, I propose that all who feel similarly inclined buy a pair of knitting needles to commemorate appropriately the forthcoming "Armistake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 25, 1939 | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

Unlike fortnight ago, when he was all tensity and action, last week his tone was quiet, jovial, as if to let the U. S. people in their own good time draw their own inferences from the fact of his proclaimed national emergency, the larger fact of war on the loose, the plight of the warring democracies and the widening sphere of the dictatorships (see p. 28). Casually, as though he were stating familiar trivia, he reaffirmed what he said last year: that the U. S. will not stand idly by if any expanding foreign power attempts to muscle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Waterline | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...minds of Generals and Premiers. Apparition born of war, fading like some ghostly continent sinking beneath the sea as war continued, for its brief span it ran the Chancelleries, changed the plans, wrote the communiques. It was the speed of Germany's advance through Poland-not the fact of German victory, but the pace of German arms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: New Power | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...Premier Molotov soon came back to the big problem: "Nobody could have expected the Polish state would have such impotence . . . collapse is a fact . . . Polish statesmen have revealed their utter bankruptcy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Dizziness From Success | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

...fleet-footed Freshman named Mumzert was the winner of yesterday's epic Registration Race at Memorial Hall. Mumzert, in fact, was going so fast as he left the ordeal of name signing, that he failed to leave his first name with the special CRIMSON correspondent who had been assigned to cover the annual event. His prize was a subscription to Cambridge's breakfast table newspaper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Progeny of Famed Celebrities Join in '43 Registration | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

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