Word: factualism
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...opinion there is great need for, and there does not exist, a well-written, factual, entertaining and impartial contemporary history -a history which takes up one year after another in volume after volume-each beginning with Jan. 1 and ending with Dec. 31, each written from the fresh viewpoint of the given year...
...sufficiently high level to warrant giving the same degree for both types of preparation. Owing to technical differences, however, separate general examinations should be given. As the Student Council Committee Report of 1931 suggested, the honor student's demands are best met by a "speculative" examination, while a "factual" one is better for the mediocre students. To suit both needs in a single examination is nearly impossible...
...That is to say, the French Cabinet claims that what is being done is to adjust the franc by reducing its value and aligning it firmly with the dollar and the pound. As in all good fairy tales there is in this a large element of perfectly sound and factual truth. Any more cynical view results simply from the point of view itself...
Famed is the Half-Way Book in which a bed-ridden Class Secretary, the late Clarence Day, explored with pen & pencil the Class of 1896, two score years after its graduation from Yale. Was College Worth While?, more factual in matter, more aggressive in manner, shatters the sentimental aura that overhangs most U. S. college reunions and classbooks...
...Small League fry had no idea what he was saying, but big League wigs listened through earphones to simultaneous translations of the speech, getting it by the flick of a switch in either French or English. Everyone agreed that it was a great speech-one of the noblest, most factual, irrefutable and moving ever made before the League of Nations. Yet it was totally without effect on Geneva's sleek, hard, slippery statesmen...