Word: factualism
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...apex of his career. But Convict Hammond has lived to tell a much lengthier, triumphantly anticlimactic tale. Last week he celebrated his Both birthday by publishing his autobiography. Oldster Hammond's report on his career, like Youngster Hammond's reports on mining properties, was clear, factual, illuminating, left no doubt of the author's opinion...
...amateurs of literature or professional students, this Catholic epic is one of the boasted glories of Italy. Many a schoolboy has heard of Dante and his Beatrice, could even recognize a picture of the poet, but no one knows much about his actual life. Biographer Papini, adducing no factual discoveries, intends his book to be "a moral and spiritual portrait." Readers will find it disappointingly dogmatic but its controversial scrappiness may whet their curiosity...
...months of writing their report. To the final draft of that report the three men last week signed their names: Professor Ralph E. Himstead of Syracuse; Professor James B. Bullitt of North Carolina; Professor Albert Benedict Wolfe of Ohio State. Then they sent a copy to Chancellor Bowman "for factual correction," and with it a letter asking him to keep the report confidential until they should publish it late in March...
...rich small-town community. Barney's defeat by his son, who got both pretty Lotta Lindbeck and his father's business, Lotta's adventures in European "society," the 1929 crash and the return to Wisconsin, are narrative trimmings for Author Ferber's slickly factual researches. Lumbermen may be impressed by proofs that she can talk their lingo...
...ducks. . . . The amazing thing to me is that with a $500,000,000 industry to maintain no one should have started long ago to put the duck business on a factual basis. No one knows whether we kill 12,000,000 and hatch 11,000,000 a year or whether we kill 24,000,000 and hatch 10,000,000. . . . This year the Biological Survey has set its hand to that job as intensively as our constricted budget would allow...