Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most unpredictable factor in selecting young instructors," he said, "seems to me not their promise in research but their teaching ability, and the proposed initial three-year appointments would unduly tie the hands of the University in cases where the interests of good instruction might demand an earlier change...
...completed a monumental ten-year job-reprinting in 22 facsimile volumes (price $88) a complete file of Defoe's Review, a weekly, biweekly and triweekly newspaper of opinion which he wrote singlehanded between 1704 and 1713. Before becoming a newspaperman at 45, Defoe had been a butcher, hosiery factor, wine importer, government lottery agent, tile manufacturer, South Sea speculator, bankrupt and convict. In 1703 he spent three days in the stocks (see cut) for publishing an annoying political pamphlet. Between jail terms he plumped mightily for freedom of the press, took secret cash handouts from ministers of all parties...
...sharp decline in the public's spending throughout the U. S. last week caused TIME'S Index of Business Conditions to drop from 98.5 to 95.4. A contributing factor in the Index's third successive decline was evidence of a slight further expansion of inventory...
With admissions at 50? (25? for children), and the two-and-one-half days factor applied only to visitors from outside of the Bay area, the expected attendance is figured like this...
...Another factor which must be considered, according to Gummere, is the increasing demand for education, both cultural and vocational, among American students. In this way, even, if the total number decreases the percentage wasting training is rising and will counteract the failing total...