Word: factness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strapping (6 ft. 4 in.), blue-eyed, blond Konstantin Rokossovsky, 52, a hard-hitting Red army field commander in World War II, had in point of fact been born in Poland. His native city, however, was not Warsaw, but the small town of Slovuta, in Volhynia, a province which for centuries has been alternately Polish and Russian. Far from being a child of the working class, he was reared at the aristocratic Nicholas Officers' School in St. Petersburg. In World War II he commanded the armies that relieved Stalingrad, crossing the Don to close a ring around the Nazis...
...Pope listed four principles for a Catholic judge to follow: 1) He "cannot shirk responsibility for his decisions and place the blame on the law and its authors. When he delivers a sentence in accordance with the law, the judge becomes an accessory to the fact and therefore is equally responsible for its results." 2) The judge "can never pass a sentence which would oblige those affected by it to perform an intrinsically immoral act . . ."3) "Under no circumstances can a judge acknowledge and approve an unjust law . . . Therefore he cannot pass a sentence that would be tantamount to approval...
...Real School." By Hutchins' own provocative standards, Chicago was. Anyone else might have been given pause by the fact that such universities as Harvard, Yale, Columbia and California, not to mention Oxford, Cambridge and the Sorbonne, also existed. Actually, Chicago had been jostling about among the first four or five U.S. universities for quite some time...
...Oberlin College, with its "two little red buildings crumbling away upon its corners" and its roads of yellow clay. It was the "hottest, coldest, wettest, flattest part of the state of Ohio," where life revolved about his father's class, the long hours in chapel, and the fact that, in Hutchins' sophomore year (1916), Ohio State beat Oberlin at football...
...than 500,000 Garands. The Olins ran the St. Louis Ordnance plant, turned out a total of over six billion loaded rounds of ammunition. At war's end Franklin Olin stepped down as president (at 89, he is still a director), and John, long the big wheel in fact, took over...