Word: factual
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Unconnected Logic. The Worker had good reason to crow. Though Salisbury's dispatches were supposed to be a factual report on economic progress in the Soviet Union, Salisbury used what facts he had to draw some remarkably naive conclusions. For example, he said that "foreigners long resident in Moscow" took the "cleaning, painting and construction" going on in Moscow as a sign that Russia was not expecting atomic bombs would soon be falling on Soviet territory. He interpreted "a steady increase in the quantity of pots and pans, copper and brass samovars" as evidence that "the Kremlin does...
...Factual Investigation...
Allen said his investigation would proceed on a slow, factual basis. He plans to collect all material on Lynch's background in an attempt to find out if he has any connection with Alderson Zoll, compiler of the Reducators list, and the National Council for American Education, the publisher. He would then publicize this material...
TIME . . . deals rather facetiously with the subject of flying saucers, pooh-poohing all factual data which has made headlines previously. If the saucer operation is a military secret, why say anything about...
...fiction of the day, bought the galley proofs of the current works of Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope and other English greats, and ran them as serials. Overnight, Harper's became a success. Literary Americans became such fans of the magazine, not only for its fiction but for its factual articles on U.S. life, that Thoreau peevishly asked: "Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers to select our reading...