Word: factualism
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...Preparations. This week the first and most pressing piece of business was Moscow. Joseph Stalin declared a state of siege in the Capital. His proclamation, like all his speeches, was dull, factual, uninspiring. It limited traffic, decreed a curfew from midnight to 5 a.m., pointed cryptically to the double danger in the rear of the troops defending Moscow and in the rear of Moscow itself, concluded quietly: "The State Committee for Defense appeals to all toilers in the Capital to keep calm and orderly and to render the Red Army defending Moscow all possible help...
Military Science I: "Dull and factual, but war isn't tiddlywinks...
Fashions in teaching literature change like fashions in everything else, and there is today, I suppose, a swing away from the purely factual and philological emphasis which was the Kittredge tradition. But those of us who studied in that tradition, even though we may have moved in other directions since, owe it a great debt. We were taught to be accurate, to respect external facts more than our own interpretations of them, to mistrust cloudiness and generality. Mr. Kittredge was the embodiment of a whole era in American literacy scholarship, and it is a tribute to the force...
...primary effect of Wallace's conference will be to boost morale in the Nazi-conquered countries. In America it will increase confidence that Rossevelt's promises will mean more than the Fourteen Points in making the peace. Verbose and eloquent promises are easy to forget and to misinterpret--clear, factual agreements publicly issued are hard for even the European masters of verbal gymnastics to pervert. Therefore, the proposals of Wallace and Leith-Ross, if sufficiently just, widely enough publicized, and actually carried out, may mean that the war will not inevitably result in an economically unworkable Europe. With freedom...
...market manipulator, Charles W. Morse, T. R. called on New York to rally behind young "Harry" Stimson. He might as well have referred publicly to Charles Evans Hughes as "Spike." On the stump high-collared Henry Stimson spoke as he did in the courtroom. His argument was well-reasoned, factual, clear. When the time came to tear into Tammany mugs he politely "begged to differ with them." The result was inevitable: a Democratic landslide...