Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most of the airplane disasters in the winters of 1936-38 were attributable to weather. So last fall the operators pulled up their socks and determined to lick this factor in 1938-39. They did. During the 1938-39 winter, not a single airliner crashed because of weather. But other troubles reared their ugly heads. Two of the three crashes of the past five months, it was officially revealed last week, were due to mechanical failure. The third was United's West Coast mishap, due to egregious pilot error (TIME, March...
...revealed that Eric Cutler, tired after his epochal 1500-meter second, had swum a heat of the 440, but that his time of 5:03 was too slow to quality for the finals. Cutler's ailing arm was another factor to slow him up. Frannie Powers won his heat of the quarter in 5:08, but his time was too slow...
Last time the President asked for more WPA money, a potent factor on his side was snow on the ground in Washington. Last week, though a late March blizzard might yet come, nature sided with the Economizers. The White House lawns were verdant. Cherry and forsythia bloomed in capital gardens...
...apparatus for refining measurements of light's speed still further. It is compact enough to be housed in a small laboratory room and hallway, it eliminates friction as a source of error, and the measurement is automatic-that is, the human eye is not a factor (the Michelson crew aimed their beams by eye) and the clocking is done, in effect, by a photoelectric cell...
...architecture in wood than he did. He also learned that the tradition of submitting building plans to an astrologer was not superstitious but practical. The seer turned out to be an expert on such matters as drainage, prevailing winds. the varying angle of sunlight through the year-a subtle factor that Architect Raymond now scrupulously studies...