Word: factual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Department, unprecedented developments in Europe last week presented two related but separate problems. One was exactly how to handle the factual changes caused by Reichs-führer Hitler's annexation of Austria. The other was how to let the world know exactly how the U. S. felt about it. Last week, Tennessee's drawling, mild-mannered Cordell Hull solved both with characteristic common sense...
...University's motto applies to present as well as past truth. But present truth is more awkward than past and a concern for factual teaching is sometimes a simple disguise for evasion of present truth. Yours very sincerely, Marcel Francon, Instructor in Romance Languages...
...criticism levelled at Professor Lake for "teaching a work with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content" is summed up in Gradgrind's "Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root up everything else...
Providence, R.I., Mar. 3--Declaring that he had been criticized at Harvard because he insisted on teaching a course with emphasis on its modern practical aspects rather than on its purely factual and historical content, Kirsopp Lake former professor of History at Harvard, delivered an address on American education to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa last night...
...indeed men in every walk of his life, for the book does not alone with the writers. Perhaps the work is not of great lasting value, because it may not be great, but certainly it is of intense interest, and significant for its change from the well-worn factual autobiography...