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Word: factly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reputation as a conservative Republican statesman on Capitol Hill, Colorado's able, lucid Gene Millikin had sadly neglected the first principle of the politicians' trade. Only a few Colorado voters knew their junior Senator personally; his political fences were sagging with disrepair. By last week the fact stood out like Gene Millikin's huge bald dome on a sunny day: one of the strongest Republicans in Senate councils was in for the battle of his political life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Broken Fences | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Garrity scored three goals--all in the final period--and two of them were unassisted. Joe Kittredge, the center, made the other two. Preston played an excellent offensive and defensive game, a performance made all the more incredible by the fact that he was skating on only one leg, because of a knee injury aggravated in the second period...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Boston College Defeats Sextet, 8-5 | 12/21/1949 | See Source »

Despite the fact that the doubled price of coffee will cost the University approximately $10,000 more a year in the future than formerly, no cut-down in the amount is planned, William A. Heaman, Director of Dining Halls, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Costs Won't Cut College's Coffee | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...salesman attributed this to the fact that a "housewives would rather buy coffee today for 86 cents than for 90 cents next week and 81 the week after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Costs Won't Cut College's Coffee | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...election was poorly administered. One candidate actually helped supervise the counting; the fact that some ballots were improperly marked and thus void was not discovered for a full day after the results were announced; candidates were allowed to review the honesty of the count, but disinterested parties were not allowed in the room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Election Confusion | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

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