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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theoretically, perhaps. "My skepticism, however, is based on the fact that it was America herself who gave sharpest expression to her mistrust in the effectiveness of conferences. For the greatest conference of all time was without any doubt the League of Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Adolf to Franklin | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson is open to the charge that it is "paring toenails" in attacking a symptom. But such strategy is motivated by the fact that the symptom is more vulnerable than the cause. Such tactics can at least supplement the long-range drive for examination reform. In attacking the symptom, the Crimson does not ignore the more fundamental aspects of the problem; it merely demands an immediate, practical course of action. That action is a frontal attack on the tutoring schools themselves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLANK ATTACK | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

Alexander Graham Bell lived in what was essentially a materialistic age, a fact that may have prompted RKO not to make fame an end in itself in the screen biography that bears his name, now showing at the Keith Memorial. Anyway, Don Ameche is called on not only to portray how the inventor of the telephone obtained recognition but also to show how he gained riches. In the first assignment, all is reasonably smooth sailing. Aided by Loretta Young, Don Ameche gives a fairly convincing life portrait of Bell in his rise from a cold attic to the court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 5/6/1939 | See Source »

...bellow and they bawl! Peanuts here, get you peanuts here!" Vag collected a few bags of peanuts, feeling a little better about things in general. At least the elephants couldn't pester him the way the fat lady did! Billy was not so excited about the elephants, thought. In fact, when Vag lifted him up so he could see better, he protested violently that he could see all right on his own feet. He wasn't that small...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

Reasons prompting the Princeton proposal of entering the race were based on the fact that the Tiger crew has no climax race. Admitting that recent Nassau shells have not ranked with those of their Big Three rivals, the paper's columnist suggested that improvement in crew calibre might result from competition at New London...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tiger's Bid for Participation in Thames Regatta Is Questioned | 5/5/1939 | See Source »

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