Word: factual
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME, never professionally humorous, regrets the semblance of humor which marred its factual report of what occurred when Jewish worshippers were dragged (some by the beard) from the Wailing Wall by brutal Arab police. The report chiefly concerned physical violence. It concerned only incidentally a religious custom which, on other occasions, TIME has described to the satisfaction of many a devout...
...name is Ophelia, if anyone wants to know. She is a Great Dane. With this the factual matter available about Ophelia, that can be printed, ends. Saturday's playful exposition of a mood, arranged, it is to be supposed, by one or those who love football, the spectacle, ought likewise to end--if he is at all psycho-receptive,--the appearances of Ophelia. The appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism...
...Work. With continued uncommunicativeness, except as to the factual results, the Republican National Committee's subcommittee to cooperate with the Candidates was taken into conference, Hooverized, given some luncheon, dismissed. It did leak out that the Hoover campaign is to be a businesslike affair, based on the Coolidge record, with no mudslinging at the Democrats countenanced or tolerated. Senator Moses said: "When we begin to campaign . . . we won't call him 'AP but we will refer to him as the governor of New York...
...great attainments, but as a stream which is flowing constantly onward, running faster, perhaps, at some times than at others. Evolution is the central theme of his book, and he selects for treatment those salient facts which testify to the evolutionary process. This choice limits the range of factual discussion, and the principle governing the choice distinguishes the book from other works which try to compress much into little...
David Lawrence was lauded for the steady growth of his complete, factual United States Daily of Washington...