Word: factual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...type of examination which finds extreme expression in the English 32 mid-year paper is fortunately by no means universal at Harvard. But it is common enough to merit thoughtful attention. Its outstanding characteristics are length and purely factual emphasis. Both tend to minimize the importance of thought and selection on the part of the writer. Assuredly an examiner should demand facts in the answers to his questions; but this does not mean that facts must come tumbling out of the writer like nickels from an opened slot machine. The examiner should rather seek to test not only knowledge...
...Tsar Cyril." Unlike most expounders of Spirituality, the Grand Duke Alexander turns readily to crisp and factual themes. As he paced toweringly about his hotel drawing-room, last week, it was not hard to see him as once he was, as the stern quarterdecker, "The Admiral of the Fleet" to Tsar Nicholas the Last...
...written. It might be a sort of Who's Who in two parts: 1) sketches of famed U. S. people, according to the opinion of the average U. S. inhabitant, or rather according to the composite opinion of the majority of average U. S. inhabitants; 2) accurate, factual sketches of these same famed U. S. people, written by competent, unbiased observers...
...sharp contrast, artistic as well as factual, is Julia Peterkin's cadenced history of a Negro woman who never left the plantation, and yet developed a mature philosophy, spangled with ancient superstition. Si May-e's story touches peaks of high comedy, drops to depths of black misery, and through it all glows the indomitable vitality of Si Maye herself...
...week, between the pandemonium of their offices and the grim, still Prison St. Lazare. Caged there sat a tremendously dynamic and even fascinating new prisoner. What she is charged with doing may well rank her with the great swindlers of all time- with fictional Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford, with factual Signor Charles Ponzi. All week the story continued to break bigger and bigger. The name of a Cabinet Minister was dragged in. But always at the focus of sensation sat in her little cell Mme. Martha Hanau, the supreme swindleress. Even the angry mobs of people she had ruined dubbed...