Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying out for the presidency of the United States. Important among these is the lack of any organized political machine. Politics, like the poor, we have always with us, and nobody has been able to demonstrate a way of succeeding in polities without some organized backing. Another discouraging factor is the illusion in the public mind that college presidents are dreamy, pensive fellows who have rusticated behind cloistered walls all their lives and hence are unfit to hold the reins of government. Mr. Wells himself seems to consider this idea in speaking of President Wilson, despite the fact that...
...most potent factor in discouraging President Conant and any of his admirers from an adventure of this sort, however, should be its effect on Harvard. The minute a college president takes sides in a political discussion, his impartiality on any subject he may subsequently take up, be it political, educational, or merely the weather, is bound to be called in question by political smear-artists whose job it is to throw mud. This mud cannot help spattering the University and sullying its name in the academic field. Glenn Frank, for instance, may be a fine politician, and a great discovery...
...only factor limiting the temperature in the new Harvard furnace is the melting point of the crucible. The best crucibles obtainable at present are made of tantalum, lined with thorium oxide. Both substances melt at about 5000 degrees Fahrenheit...
...dulled by easy money. In Depression there was little income to tax. But when the bill for Recovery was finally presented, the Tax Collector suddenly emerged as stern, ubiquitous reality. Taxes had become, and were apparently to remain, a major item in the cost of doing business, a determining factor in the cost of living...
...year examinations slowly descends nearer and nearer to the tender, bared flesh of the undergraduate neck, student red-corpuscle-pressure mounts steadily higher, and a kind of feverish anxiety speeds up the ordinarily sluggish tempo of daily life. Under these circumstances, time becomes an all-important and vital factor; the primary object of the day's curriculum is to employ every minute, even every second, on the well high insurmountable task of cramming all those important, little bits of academic wisdom into the old cranium. As the undergraduate hastily slips into the dining hall at 9:30, bolts down...