Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact the Paris Times, for four years was a kind of daily TIME, giving to each item of news that background and elucidation necessary for comprehension-or entertainment. Now, ten years later, American newspapers are discovering the value of the formula and hailing it as a discovery. The Paris Times was a pioneer in the daily field, as TIME was a pioneer in the weekly field...
...France had expected war at any hour. Few men bothered then to inquire what price had been paid for peace. Daladier struck while the emotion was hot, called the French Parliament to a short, 23-hour session to ratify what he had done. Presented thus with an accomplished fact, the realistic deputies voted approval 535-to-75, almost lone objectors being the intransigent Communists. So Edouard Daladier stayed on as Premier of the France that had lost two cubits from her stature...
...Moyer of the Alumni Placement Office respectfully begs to disagree with Mr. Tunis in a recent Alumni Bulletin article. Basing his predictions on fact and figures of the Class of '37, Mr. Moyer can say to the Class of '39: Two years from now, ceteris paribus, half of you will have jobs. Most of the rest of you will be plugging yet in graduate schools, aiming to be doctors, lawyers, professors, and tycoons. Only four per cent of you- say thirty out of six hundred and fifty--will be part of the eleven million who tramp the payments. And finally...
Depression psychology has made June the saddest month in the year--completely aside from the fact that it is the middle-aisle month. For this is the time that thousands of sober-minded and clear-eyed American youth march lightly and boldly from out of ivied gates, only to find that a cold world has no room for them. Perhaps this can be a different commencement -- just for a change--for Harvard '39. Maybe the bond houses, closed their fabulous doors when turtle-neck sweaters went out. But, assuming that the next depression holds off a few years at least...
...report recognizes the fact that the English department teaches competition and that students exempt from English A are expected to write clear prose, but the Committee recommends that "every other department should insist that ideas be clearly and correctly expressed before they are accepted are evidence that the student possesses an adequate grasp of the subject...