Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite the fact that the Free City's inhabitants are 96% German, Poland has an argument against their incorporation in the Reich. The vital interests of a nation of 35,000,000 persons must come before the sentimental desires of less than half a million persons to return to their homeland...
Miss Harriette Mercer, 26, a strapping, dusky laundress, was presented to His Highness at a Harlem reception. It was love at first sight; and the fact that the Prince had some four wives-the limit under Mohammedan law-back in Africa seemed unimportant. Before the Prince returned to Paris, where he is correspondent for Le Senegal, West African weekly, they were engaged to be married. Said the Princess-to-be last week before she sailed to join her fiance: "Every girl dreams of meeting a Prince and marrying him, and it looks like my dream will come true. . . . I really...
Second Division. After the first division between laymen and churchmen over Darwin came a second division between scientists who did not question that evolution was a fact. The Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection declined in scientific favor. This "eclipse of Darwinism" began in the 19th Century, reached into the 20th. The tendency was to doubt that natural selection-the slow combing out and accumulation of small variations-could carry the whole burden of evolution. Many scientists grew so contemptuous of natural selection that they called it pure fiction. Darwin knew nothing of the Mendelian heredity laws, nothing about...
Despite the denunciations of demagogues, shrewd international bankers are a commodity of which the U. S. has never had an adequate supply. Most costly evidence of the fact is the $1,175,000,000 of defaulted bonds outstanding which foreigners (Germany: 26.4%) owe U. S. investors. This week, however, the U. S. acquired a very competent specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German...
...store. They are deposited with a totally separate banking company set up under State banking laws and supervised and examined periodically by State banking authorities just like any other bank. The store itself never sees a red penny of these deposits until after a purchase has been made," in fact customers receive interest on them...