Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Referring again to the lives of great scientists for his factual material, Conant analyses and explains the so called "scientific method" in lay terms. Though he has written many books relating to this subject in general and Chemistry in particular, this is the first designed for a popular audience...
When a U.S. news scout searched Bogota for a Colombian representative last year, he was told that there was only one man in the country who knew how to write the terse, factual stories that North Americans like. "Unfortunately for you," a Colombian explained, "he is our President." He spoke of keen, wiry Alberto Lleras Camargo, the "boy wonder" editor who became Minister of Interior (Premier) at 29, and stepped into the presidency ten years later. Last week, Lleras, now 41, got a job with even more scope; he was elected director general of the venerable Pan American Union...
...world Joyce wrote about was, on the surface, the city of Dublin, where he had lived until, at 22, he forsook Ireland for lifelong expatriation on the Continent. His endless evocation of Dublin and the inner life of its people, pathetic, somnambulist, comic and dirty, was as factual as a photograph and as symbolic as a liturgy. Even sympathetic critics sometimes lost patience with him. Wrote Cyril Connolly...
Brain-child of the University's delegation which during the Conference circulated questionnaires in an attempt to procure information on world and national student organizations, the Bulletin pulls together factual reports on exchange, travel, relief, and rehabilitation of students all over the globe...
Veteran pre-med students have issued protests against the specific and factual nature of the Professional Aptitude Test held two weeks ago under the auspices of the Association of American Medical Colleges, a recent informall poll disclosed...