Word: factualism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME emphatically agrees with Novelist Pearl Buck that raising a race issue is as unwise as it is ignoble. However, "yellow bastards" was not TIME'S phrase but the factual report of typical angry U.S. reactions, thoroughly documented by reports from correspondents all over the U.S. It probably came to the tongues of many men in its strongest meaning-one of moral censure rather than race prejudice-for "yellow" has long been the word for cowardice and treachery. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side...
...Defense Economics," by Seymour Harris, professor of Economics, and "British Colonies and the War," by Marcus James '43 are both brief, dull, but thoroughly factual, and provide a worthwhile variation from the Guardian's tendency to emphasize theoretical material, a fault which has occurred more consistently in the past than in the current issue...
...TIME may sometimes offend-and for this TIME is deeply sorry. Only recently a brief article in TIME became an international issue when death gave it an unintended significance. TIME especially regrets any offense to the sensibilities of its friends in Latin America-resulting from this article. But honest, factual reporting on events in every part of the world is essential if the people of the Americas are to help guide the destinies of their nations...
Rosenberg's Rise. Yet no copy writer has ever been able to pump more wordy gas into a factual vacuum than Doktor Alfred Rosenberg. Born 47 years ago in Rakvere, Estonia, he was the son of an Estonian mother and a German father who sold leather to shoemakers. Young Alfred went to high schools in Tallinn and Riga, developed a high admiration for -and a profound social inferiority complex about-noble Baltic families descended from medieval Teutonic Knights. Even at this early period it entered Alfred's head that if one cannot be born into an aristocracy...
Forty-seven delegates from 18 colleges brought new ideas and contributions to the discussions. Polit added innovations to conference technique this weekend: the pamphlet, We're in the Army Now, which has already earned praise for its dramatic yet factual approach; the living newspaper play, in which students, employees and residents of Poughkeepsic cooperated to present a picture of army life; the informal and varied panel discussions. We express our genuine delight at the large turnout which was Vassar's answer to each session's challenge...