Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Fact. In Rio de Janeiro, Butcher Manoel Silveira Merinho, arrested for selling his customers second-grade meat at first-grade prices, was released when the station-house cat ate the evidence...
...watched from the bridge of the engaged cruiser St. Louis. The way he felt about it became the title of his book on the war in the Pacific: With My Heart in My Mouth. Taylor Is inclined to believe that some sort of rough justice is indicated by the fact that soon after returning unscathed from the Pacific an icicle from the 33rd floor of the TIME & LIFE Building scored a direct hit on his head and laid...
...days the welcome news had swooped and skittered on the horizon like a distant barn swallow. This week, rumor became fact. Bethlehem Steel Co., the nation's second greatest steel producer, had come to terms with Philip Murray's striking C.I.O. United Steelworkers...
...paralyzing strike had started Oct. 1 over "a matter of principle": Should the steel companies foot the whole bill for employees' pensions and insurance (as proposed by President Truman's fact-finding board), or should the Steelworkers chip in for some of the cost? But as time passed, as distress hit the steel towns and major segments of U.S. industry began to stifle for lack of steel, Phil Murray and Bethlehem decided to get down from abstract principle and talk cents...
Significant about Harvard and Radcliffe is the fact the neither school, despite its increased financial cares, has curtailed any of its main facilities. Instead, both schools have been able to continue expansion; libraries, housing, and research facilities to name a few items, have continued to grow...