Word: factly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State reception in Washington history had been staged by Franklin Roosevelt, He was only General Anastasio Somoza, President of little Nicaragua (pop. 1,133,000), but this show for him was in all details precisely the reception planned for King George & Queen Elizabeth of mighty Great Britain next month. Fact that it was a dress rehearsal for that occasion did not diminish the fact that it came first, that it was as handsome a performance as any Latin-American heart could desire, that it was a gesture intended to honor all the Good Neighbors as well as Nicaragua...
Meanwhile in Washington, the Woodrum committee went marching on through the WTA jungle of fact and rumor...
There is, in fact, but a single way in which such measures can be avoided; and that is for the House Masters to fulfill the trust which they have abused. The first selection of the Freshman class this week has made it patent that these gentlemen do not feel obliged to follow any precepts in the admissions system except their own opinions and prejudices. If their attitude does not change before the second draft is made this year, it will be necessary to curtail their authority with a system of set criteria...
...average Princeton man has been described by a certain girls' college as a not-quite grown-up prep school boy who has not yet become used to the fact that he doesn't have to smoke up the ventilator any more. We Elis would describe him as of the species "Joe College," the rah-rah, razzle dazzle "hot dog." We would think of beer suits, "The Nass," and house parties, and pronounce him a clothes-horse, social butterfly, and incipient "lounge-lizard...
...view of the fact that performances by the Pierian Sodality at Harvard are very infrequent, it is unfortunate that the orchestra was not up to form in its concert last Wednesday evening. The Pierian is rally a much better group than it appeared to be in this concert, and it is too bad that its only impression this year (except for a concert with the Radcliffe orchestra and chorus in the Fall, and its recent Pops Concert at Adams House) should not be a good one. It is even more regrettable that this orchestra, which plays programs outstanding in originality...