Word: factually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
Author Nevins devotes five chapters to Fish's early career, divides the remainder of this fat volume between accounts of foreign affairs and domestic scandals, quotes copiously from Fish's factual, objective diary. Born in 1808, the son of a distinguished Revolutionary officer, Fish's first 60 years were relatively uneventful. In the next eight he packed a lifetime of effort into the negative task of preventing trouble. He kept his head while around him plotters, many of them with Grant's support, worked for war with England and Spain, the annexation of Santo Domingo...
...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...