Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Byrnes's valedictory was a sober factual review of the progress of U.S. foreign relations in a year when U.S. policy-and the hopes of lasting peace itself-emerged from the shadows of confusions and doubts. Grave difficulties, he said, had arisen at the very outset of efforts to make a peace, "but we refused to abandon the principles for which our country stands. And we served notice that we would not retreat to a policy of isolation...
This, in TIME, must shock all thinking men. Nor is this the first time in recent years that this same gross error has marred your factual pages. I humbly suggest that TIME reporters may search throughout this perilous world, from icebound Greenland to hellbent Reno, from Glasgow to Shanghai, and not find so much as one bottle of Scotch whiskey with which to fortify themselves in their admirable pursuit of truth...
...after Nicholas Murray Butler got the board started, the first 973 test-takers were private-school graduates who had taken pretty much the same studies. It was easy for the board to hit on a half-dozen broad essay questions, fairly testing their factual preparation, their grasp of ideas, their literary style. The 46,087 boys & girls who took the College Boards last year were just too many and various to grade in the old way; more than half of them were public-school students-products of a dozen different curriculums. Four years ago, the board tossed out the essay...
...load. Out of the classroom since 1933, he has volunteered to guest-lecture in the new general education courses in natural science. His recipe for teaching science to nonscientists: a new type of course dealing with the "tactics and strategy" of science, putting a minimum emphasis on factual knowledge, a maximum on scientific method and historical approach...
...letters a week. Back from the same Soviet-sponsored tour of the U.S.S.R. that convinced Southern Baptist Louie D. Newton that Russia was in a fair way to hit the sawdust trail (TIME, Aug. 26), Park Avenue Methodist Sockman, writing in the Christian Century, stuck prudently to factual reporting, left the enthusiasm to Baptist Louie. Excerpts...