Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least potent factor in this orderly demonstration in the interest of unobstructed study has been the attitude of Harvard faculty and alumni. By active complaint and deliberate discussion, representatives of the University have acquired a large following who favor repeal of this obnoxious legislation. The concerted action which swept sixty-one oath supporters out of the Massachusetts legislature is simply a local counterpart of the nationwide defeat of the Hearst type of noise maker. Harvard may give herself a pat on the back for having helped to combat this branch of American demagoguery...
...produced during normal sexual intercourse in such abundance as almost to constitute an eruption. This energetic secretion of thyroxin would appear to be an essential preliminary to conception. Inhibiting the function of the thyroid by emotional stress or other conditions is therefore at least one, and an important, factor in infertility...
...Woman Rebels (RKO). Ever since Katharine Hepburn set the cinema industry by the ears with Little Women, her employers have been trying doggedly to discover just what elusive factor, added to the stock formula of Lavender & Old Lace, made that picture so sensationally successful. A Woman Rebels represents an effort to discover if the element was the revolt of a young girl against convention. That the experiment is conducted with painstaking care only makes it the more apparent that the hypothesis is faulty...
...screen, from which COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents these exclusive photos. Most important of the football subsidization developments was the now historic Atlanta meeting of the Southeastern Conference, at which Florida's President John J. Tigert presented and had approved his resolution that athletic ability be recognized as a determining factor in the allotment of student scholarships, loans and jobs...
...course could go along on its own momentum are over. Undergraduates are becoming increasingly critical and observant, and their opinion, freely expressed, was the soap on the bathroom floor which sent Sociology A and Philosophy B skidding to destruction. The voice of the student body is becoming a factor of increasing importance in shaping the curriculum of the college...