Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...east, notably Andover, Choate, Taft, Gilman, and Lawrenceville. In the last few years, however, wrestling in the East has taken big strides. The influx of new coaches from the west, such as Cliff Gallagher at Harvard, Jay Ricks at M.I.T., and Dick Cole at Brown, has been a major factor in the change...
...time Lehigh was becoming the foremost eastern wrestling representative, a position which it has maintained ever since. Harvard was admitted into the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling League, at the time a rather exclusive organization, due to the efforts of Bill Bingham, whose love of the sport has been an important factor in the rise of Harvard wrestling...
...Bock attributes most of this development to the rigid inspection required in the Hygiene Building before admittance to Stillman Infirmary and to more frequent contacts between advisers and students. He also cited Dean Gummere's work on admission requirements as being a contributing factor in the decrease of exam cuts...
With President Bose's one-year term about up, Saint Gandhi looked around for a more tractable successor. Complicating factor, however, was that the President decided to run for another term, thus openly challenging the Gandhi leadership for the first time. First Gandhi nominee was bearded Persian Scholar Moulana Abul Kalam Azad, a Mohammedan. He promptly withdrew after being hooted out of a meeting. Nominee No. 2 was Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Gandhi's right-hand man. He also withdrew. Final choice was Dr. Patthabhi Sitaramayya of Madras, who received Saint Gandhi's and the Congress high command...
...skewed by some worldwide catastrophe, if it continues to follow its geometric destiny, it will go on rising, but more slowly, and will flatten out some 160 years hence at a population figure of 2,600,000,000. Reasons: contraception, postponement of the marriage age, an obscure biological factor which tends to diminish the fertility of Homo sapiens...