Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...movie, "Mission to Moscow" is good entertainment, well acted and photographed, presenting a faithful portrayal of an important book marred only by factual irresponsibility...
Harvard then must accept the fact that preliminary outside work cannot be required, but must be assumed. Its Faculty must not penalize the interested with elementary and factual outlines aimed at the indifferent. Instructors must make it clear that they assume a knowledge of basic facts, to be presented by carefully selected reading, not merely high-school texts. Only then can they correlate and be understood; only then can they stimulate by interpretation. And the lecture system has no other justification for its existence...
...same as the purpose of Background for War-to give our subscribers a living understanding of the great new problems and questions Americans may soon be called upon to face. Now as always TIME'S aim is to inform rather than to make recommendations-to-give you the factual and ideological background you need to make up your own minds intelligently...
When subjected to rational consideration, the charges of Congressman Dies have been found completely lacking in factual proof. In some cases he has gone so far as to urge dismissal of men who left the government service several months ago. As a result, Democratic and Republican Congressmen have begun a united movement to set up a new committee to pass judgment on these charges. They admit, by this action, that the findings of Dies and his assistants are not to be trusted...
...read the State Department's White Paper, "Peace and War," with the expectancy that American foreign policy during the thirties can be halocd or blessed. Nothing could be farther from the truth, the truth made so painfully clear by page after page of very factual historical exposition. In precise chronological order, the department's analysts have recorded the breakdown of international morality during that distressed decade, and have attempted to weave some sort of cohesive web from the fragments of democratic resistance to this collapse...