Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political polls, TIME readers should be well aware that the best of surveys is in fact nothing but a factual report of public sentiment at some period before election day. A series of such surveys, beginning now when many people are not greatly interested in politics, can be a useful progressive report of the development of public sentiment. What follows is a report on the state of the public mind in mid-February...
...surprised that TIME, with its zeal for factual. description, should have been so bamboozled...
...years-belated shock came in a joint Army-Navy release, based on factual, eyewitness, non-hearsay accounts from Lieut. Colonel William E. Dyess and two others who escaped from Jap imprisonment and torture last April. From their reports, the Army & Navy concluded that of the 22,300 Americans taken captive on Bataan and Corregidor, at least 7,700 had been tortured, starved or shot to death in the first year of imprisonment. The number of dead among the 28,000 Filipino captives was incalculable...
...calmer, more factual view...
...read the 50 or 60 factual volumes in the plain bookcase and drove in Rock' Creek Park. He threatened to move to a hotel. Major General Shelley Marietta, head of Walter Reed, talked him out of it. He refused to pose for a picture, even at the request of the War Department. To hell with the War Department. He was living out an old warrior's life...