Word: factually
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Fate of Society. Baker's comments could be applied to poetry in general today. Zabel analyses well the imagery in Stevens' poetry, while Finch concludes that Stevens is a real American poet in spite of the general howl that he follows in the steps of the French. Simons is factual with a dull subject
...camera far & wide, cranking away on scenes of commercial fishing in Holland (The Breakers), mining in Belgium (Borinage), fighting in Spain and China (Spanish Earth, The 400,000,000). Trying to sell his product in competition with the fast freight from Hollywood has taught Ivens he must unwind his factual, sometimes statistical, accounts without making his reel resemble a Fitz-Patrick Travelogue or a photostatic copy of a balance sheet...
Similarly annoyed with the script writers last week was the International Association of Chiefs of Police, holding its annual meeting in Milwaukee. Decrying aerial crime dramas as being bad for moppets, the chiefs resolved to stop supplying radio writers with factual information from their files. Chief gripe was that their material was so distorted on the air that they could not recognize it. Whether they would approve of crime stories that stuck to the facts was left unresolved...
...week they read the sharpest, most detailed and unsparing record of that costly battle that has yet seen print-Labor's Civil War, by Herbert Harris (Knopf; $2.50). Two years ago young (34) Historian Harris established his right to be heard on these matters when he published a factual, informative, detached book, American Labor, that summed up labor's story. There is nothing detached about Labor's Civil War. Like some Mencken of the proletariat, heaving adjectives at labor's sacred cows, Mr. Harris sustains a note of exasperation, ridicule, hell-and-damnation for 298 pages...
...ammonium, calcium, and strontium chlorides which I have taken." In one essay, "After-effects of Exposure of Men to Carbon Dioxide," he reprints his Lancet article on an experiment he made in connection with the Thetis disaster. This study, as its author points out, has both stylistic and factual interest for the average reader...