Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unperturbed. Boss Hague disregarded such criticism for broader subjects less susceptible of factual proof. There was sin abroad. (Hague is against sin: he allows no prostitutes, burlesque shows or nightclubs in Jersey City.) There was the city's youth. Brassily the mayor intoned: "I have never developed into a reformer, but I have always tried to set an example for the younger folk...
...Brown agreed, called in WLB officials as additional faculty, and embarked on an 18-week course of weekly classes. Taking off in rough weather just after Douglas had lost an NLRB election to the C.I.O., with many of Douglas' supervisors strongly antiunion, Wanous and Brown's factual, informative discussions were so successful that the C.I.O. promptly asked for classes for its organizers, shop stewards and unit chairmen...
...determining how the tests can be used for admitting returning veterans. The examinations are of the machine-scored, multiple-choice type. They are not easy tests, but they have been designed for the man whose formal education has been interrupted, and hence require ability and aptitude rather than factual knowledge...
...Yorker last week appeared the first report from the German front by its sports and cinema writer turned war correspondent, tall, young (25), quiet-voiced David Lardner. His story was a factual, homey piece about life in liberated Luxembourg. Two days after publication came news that Lardner, leaving conquered Aachen in a jeep, had run into a minefield. He was the 20th U.S. correspondent killed in World...
...also sold his own productions, which were bestsellers. Parson Weems wrote them at odd moments along the road-biographies of Washington, of Franklin, of Penn and-his best book-of General Francis Marion, the "little, smoke-dried, French-phizzed" Swamp Fox. They abounded in doubtful anecdotes, unblushing fabrications and factual errors, but they were also buoyant, impulsive, racy and full of the spirit of their subjects. After Washington's death Parson Weems wrote to his publisher: "Washington, you know, is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him. I am nearly primed and cocked...