Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only consolation for coaches still brave enough to play Notre Dame was the fact that Leahy would lose six ends, four tackles and assorted other stars by graduation after this season. But that did not make life much brighter for coaches and players at Michigan State, North Carolina, Iowa, Southern California and Southern Methodist. They still had to play Notre Dame this year...
...third day of biblical creation.* For a while the earth had only a single continent (Pangea), but the continuing rise of the core material and its spreading out near the surface broke Pangea into chunks and carried them apart. His theory, says Urey, accounts for the remarkable fact, first pointed out by Alfred Wegener in his theory of continental drift, that the eastern coast of the Americas looks as if it had been split away from the western coast of the Old World...
...secretes a substance that kills certain bacteria growing on culture dishes. Later it was found that the secretion also kills many disease-producing organisms in the human body. It also does its job without any appreciable damage to human tissues. Fleming's great discovery focused attention on the fact that some micro-organisms are powerful chemical weapons that can be used against other disease-causing microorganisms...
Graves's tale (based on historical fact) tells how vapid General Mendaña y Castro set sail from Callao, Peru with four ships to take possession of the dimly known Solomons and to convert the heathen -mostly into cash. But the heart of the book, like that of any pirate story, is Graves's evocation of the murderous plotting and quarreling that enlivened the long and miserable voyage: its sailors, soldiers, settlers and missionaries fall on one another (and on the hapless islanders) with a ferocity inspired equally by high zeal and abysmal greed...
Bender's line work was sorely missed after he left the game. His loss, plus the fact that Houston and Davis were only playing one way, opened the first spots where the Crimson's weakness finally showed...