Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tackle England, Russia and France without a major Europeanally. She isn't ready for war economically or politically. Of course, a Fascist victory in Spain will be a great boost for Fascism all over the world, and so the outcome in Spain will be a determining factor in the speed of liberal movements everywhere...
Oumansky denied that a dictatorship of the proletariat exists in Russia, stating that "proletariat" implies a dispossessed class, and that such a thing could not obtain in a Socialist country. He added that the factor of coercion was subordinate to the factor of education in the Soviet form of government...
...despite this seeming improvement, there is one factor which only close study of the report brings to light, - namely, that the A.A. has shifted to the University the cost of compulsory physical education. Thus what stands for a small margin of profit might well be taken for a twenty thousand dollar loss...
...attempted resignation when the full proportions of the catastrophe became clear. Thereafter he adopts an impersonal tone, discourses on the duties of Federal agents, gives an unilluminating sketch of his own background, discusses the habits of gangsters and the weakness of law enforcement, retells the stories of the Factor, Bremer, Urschel and Robinson kidnappings, the deaths of Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. Best parts of American Agent are its thumbnail biographies of public enemies: Verne Miller, migratory worker, parachute jumper, sergeant in the U. S. Army, who became a sheriff before he became a gangster, then posed...
...willing to hand back and discuss their students' papers, the average undergraduate has too often been forced to look on examinations as ancient history as soon as the proctor collects them. For the University to treat in so haphazard a fashion work that counts more heavily than any single factor in a college career is clearly a breach of trust, and a uniform system should be devised by which all who desire may get their books back at the end of a given course or term...