Word: facto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later interview with a New York Herald Tribune correspondent the North Dakota Senator revealed a hidden streak of old-fashioned imperialism that amazed his countrymen and embarrassed an Administration which boasts a "good neighbor" foreign policy. Senator Nye spoke frankly of intervention: "The constitutional Government replacing the Mendieta de facto Administration must quickly recognize this important obligation to U. S. investors, and if it fails to do so, the U. S. will surely take charge of collection...
...quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience to its inane exhilaration and to possible neurosis...
...would mean, ipso facto, to Mr. Nash that of brains by weight and volume Mr. Milquetoast has no more than a feather...
...tutor and tutee when they did become candidates. It is also likely that the independent work with a tutor very often inspires a student with greater interest in his field and gives him an impetus to try for honors. A group rating, moreover, below group four does not "ipso facto" indicate that a student is incapable of or uninterested in doing work with a tutor. When the committee says there are a large number of below average students who have not "been brought to the point where they are able to take their studies into their own hands and push...
...Otto should be made known as a fact but not published for the present in King Vittorio Emmanuele's Royal Gazette. Conceivably the wedding may turn upon whether Archduke Otto regains Austria's Imperial Throne or at least the Hungarian Royal Throne. When the engagement had been made de facto last week Zita and Princess Maria embraced, and Zita's seven younger offspring were presented to their prospective sister-in-law. Only then did the Italian royal motor slip away...