Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great discoveries of modern genetics is that certain hereditary characters are linked to the sex factor. Males manufacture two kinds of spermatozoa, one bearing a y-chromosome, the other an x-chromosome. If a y-chromosome spermatozoon happens to penetrate the female ovum, the get is a boy; if an x-chromosome, it is a girl. Thus Professor Crew reasoned the shorter life expectancy of the male seems to be carried on a gene or genes in the y-chromosome. By delicate manipulations, geneticists have had some success in separating male and female elements in mammalian sperm, opening the prospect...
...mounted that when at rest it is free to turn in any direction. When spinning it has a quality known as "rigidity in space" or gyroscopic inertia. Turn or move the gyroscope mounting and the flywheel will continue to rotate in the same plane. This stability provides a known factor which can be used to determine or counteract all sorts of variables. Sperry Gyroscope Co. Inc. sells a gyrocompass which is standard equipment on most liners, gyrostabilizer to prevent ships from rolling, gyro-horizon to indicate the attitude of planes in relation to the horizontal, directional gyro to indicate direction...
...House Plan, with its tendency to separate students into groups, has made the Council the unifying factor in the undergraduate life. While the majority of members are elected, the constitution of the Council makes sure that there are enough appointed positions to insure complete representation of all groups. Almost all questions which concern undergraduate life as a whole come to the attention of the Council. In general these questions are educational or athletic, but the Council is also in charge of all class elections, all appointments of committees and routine duties. It issues reports on all question which seem significant...
...exception of a few for the second half-year most of the scholarships and fellowships are awarded for each year during the preceding Summer. In the case of prizes, carrying a stipend for academic achievement, competitions are conducted each year. The financial need of competitors is not a factor in awarding them...
...spent in fiscal 1936 and showed the first downtrend in spending since the New Deal took charge of the Treasury. But this trend was not to be taken too seriously, for in fiscal 1936, the chief expenditures for the Soldiers' Bonus took place. Eliminating this non-recurring factor the spending trend was still upward...