Word: factor
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...decided impetus by President Roosevelt's somewhat jingoistic performance a few years ago, in sending our navy around the world. On the other hand, an unequivocal and bona-fide statement of our foreign policy and aspirations, accompanied by just treatment of other nations, has been shown to constitute a factor of the first importance in preserving amicable relations with them...
...Exeter rink Saturday afternoon. All of the scoring came in the second half when the sensational goal guarding of Plimpton, the Exeter goal, who made 12 stops in the first half, gave way before a more strenuous bombardment by the second team forwards. Another factor in Exeter's defeat was the retirement of Captain White, who was compelled to withdraw in the first half after being hit in the mouth by the puck...
Several large business concerns in the West have made patient and intelligent trials with college men in business, and the results as a whole speak well for the college students. Of course, individuality is the prime factor in any man's success or failure, whether he has education or lacks it, but on anything like an even chance and opportunity it was generally found that the college boy caught on more quickly and progressed faster than the boy lacking college education and training. He grasped problems and situations more readily and saw their possibilities more thoroughly, because he had become...
Percy played a steady game and showed much skill in getting the puck away from the opposing forwards. He and Captain Margin used their sticks well and did some fast skating down the rink. J. I. Wylde '17 stopped several particularly hard shots and was an important factor in shutting out the substitutes...
...this is the very formula that has been the one important factor of business success in the last decade, and it works as many miracles today as it did ten years ago. So when you see a man who really appreciates its value and has incorporated it into his work, don't pity him-pity yourself...