Word: factly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freshmen had a rather good season last year, beating Yale in the Harvard-Yale-Princeton run, 21 to 40. An encouraging note was the fact that the Yardlings dropped first place to Princeton by only...
...fact remains that recognition of Spain, a country which denies fundamental freedoms and was an active, if not open, ally of Germany in World War II, would sabotage the 1946 United Nations resolution which requested all members to break off ties with any nation which abridged human rights...
That old storyteller Somerset Maugham expounds his literary theorizing to the full at the outset of "Quartet." It seems that during his lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move...
Where was Lou Little concentrating his attack against the Lord Jeffs? "They ran everywhere, inside as well as out. They were sweeping a lot." Apparently Columbia has a strong end-running attack--a fact that bodes ill for the Crimson on the basis of the weak end play against Stanford...
Archbishop Cushing also was "thus obliged to reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months, and since January 1 has not possessed the faculties of his archdiocese...