Word: factualism
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...usually six students) and lead by a high-ranking member of the faculty (Usually a professor). These precepts, established in 905 by President Wilson, are the heart of the upperclass years and perhaps the most distinctive feature of Princeton's undergraduate education. The precept emphasizes logical thinking rather than factual knowledge. It is a time in the Princeton education when a professor can discover and correct any misconception in his students' minds while stimulating their reading interests...
...assorted charges founded on the traditional claim that the Republicans are saving money only by excluding necessary public works. Admittedly, Herter has reduced expenses, but he has likewise given the first personal income tax relief in 33 years. And when Murphy's attacks are reduced to particular issues, little factual evidence serves his argument. He maintains, for example, that Herter has neglected improvements in public and mental health. But Murphy was one of the few Democrats who refused to approve this year's capital outlay program that will help provide the necessary hospitals and facilities...
...Moscow trials and told how 01d Bolshevik "Rubashov" confessed falsely to a plot against the party, because confession was "the last service" he could render the party. While Koestler was writing that novel, Walter Krivitsky, ex-head of Soviet Military Intelligence for Western Europe, was writing a factual account of how a false confession had been extracted from a real-life Old Bolshevik. Koestler cites Krivitsky's eerie, almost-word-for-word confirmation of his own brilliant intuition of why "Rubashov" confessed...
Three 20-year-old youths are also under suspicion for the thefts, but local police have not found any factual evidence against them and can make no arrests without such proof. Two were recently released from prison...
...grew, the Poynters shuttled back and forth to Florida, where Nelson is now publisher of the St. Petersburg Times. With his new CQ publisher at work, Poynter will be able to spend more time on his Florida daily. Says Poynter: "Our mission is to try to bring factual order out of the controversy about Congress. There is so much emotion involved that one side or the other might easily cry foul...