Word: factual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost Babylonian Old Post Office, built in 1869-78 after a fantastic architectural competition from which the Government chose not one but 15 winning designs, used the best features of all 15. Art project researchers and Writer Elizabeth McCausland collaborated on furnishing such factual tid-bits for each of the 97 pictures. Publisher and printer apparently collaborated not enough, allowing some reproductions to suffer from dandruff in the blacks...
...Corrigan in his famed "wrong way" flight to Ireland last July. Unlike most samples of its genre, it succeeds in being an unusually likable and honest little picture, for Corrigan is one of the worst actors who ever appeared on the screen. Indeed, cast as himself in a reasonably factual account of his own extraordinarily humdrum career, Corrigan does...
...research division will delve even further into the propaganda field, analyzing propaganda methods employed by the totalitarian stats and by the political parties in America. In addition, the difference between the interpretive and the "factual" news commentator in his appeal and influence, the question of free speech on the radio, and the problem of foreign language broadcasting will be covered...
Aside from the clash of personalities inevitably involved in a case of this sort, Professor Feild's concluding appointment is the result of a fundamental difference of opinion within the department. At present, overwhelming stress is laid on the historical and factual approach to the Fine Arts. Students are filled with names and dates, are taught to recognize famous pictures, to distinguish the works of one master from those of another. While there is a branch of the department devoted to design and actual drawing, it is isolated and disconnected from everything else, and no one seemingly knows...
...Moran introduced in the Legislature an amendment to New York's Constitution to let the Governor share his most harrowing responsibility, by setting up a Board of Pardons. Today 16 States have Pardon Boards. But in most States, Governors, though they may rely on other officials to make factual investigations and recommendations, must exercise the awful power of pardoning and commuting sentences alone...