Word: facto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Church but did not mean to. A conservative and a high Churchman, he lived & died a member of the Church of England. He vehemently inveighed against his followers who left the Anglican fold. But before his death the U. S. Methodists under his lieutenant Francis Asbury were already de facto a separate church; Wesley's demise legalized the divorce. Wesley was a gentleman and had a gentleman's education. At Oxford before he was converted he wrote verses envying Chloe's flea for its ability to roam Chloe, and attended at least one expensive & bibulous banquet...
...Government in which Mr. Churchill was Chancellor of the Exchequer) up to last year, when the second MacDonald Government extended British recognition to Moscow for the second time. No apologist but a slasher, a thruster, Mr. Churchill wrote of the Soviet State in terms which, if accurate, would ipso facto justify attempts to destroy it by any means: "It is unnatural. It is a monster that has been born into our modern world. A cold reptilian blood flows in its veins. It possesses the science of civilization without its mercy, the fanaticism of religion without its God, the exploitation...
...Peru (three weeks old) and Bolivia (three months old). Almost simultaneously the London Foreign Office announced that its relations with Argentina remained unbroken. Statesman Stimson had run a dead heat with Great Britain. He listed minor reasons first for his diplomatic omnibus: i) the new governments were de facto; 2) nobody resisted them; 3) each had promised to regularize its status constitutionally. One half of the real reason for quick recognition he explained thus: "I have deemed it wise to act promptly in this matter in order that in the present economic situation our delay may not embarrass the people...
Yesterday's editorial remarked that shrubbery does not make a faculty. Neither will new laboratories bring discoveries to Cambridge ipso facto. In spite of the new Mallinckrodt laboratory Harvard still lags in the coming field of physical chemistry. The buildings under construction can only justify themselves if they connote progress in the new physics and the new biology, and geography, newly made a science. For the science of yesterday, unlike its culture, is no good at all. Harvard must catch up with tomorrow...
Membership in the Communist Party renders a Pole liable to the penalty of Death because court decisions have established a legal presumption in Poland that anyone who is a Communist is ipso facto attempting to overthrow the Government and is therefor guilty of treason...