Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most important factor in M.I.T.'s existence is a concern which has the exclusive right to sell its stock. Directly and through dealers Massachusetts Distributors, Inc. last year sold $38,000,000 worth of M.I.T. shares. The trust receives an amount equal to the liquidating value of its shares already outstanding on the day new shares are sold, so that there is no dilution of equity. For its commission the selling company adds about 5% (reduced from 8%). On repurchases from stockholders who want to sell the trust pays the full liquidating value, though it has the right...
...team that wins a league pennant is capable of beating any other team. In a four-game series the element of luck often is the determining factor. Witness the example of Fitzimmons' pitching in the third game or specific instances like Whitehead's grab of De Maggio's line drive in the opener...
...that Hitler and Mussolini have some sort of an agreement, he averred, by which Hitler was able to move into the Rhineland while Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, and now the two are unquestionably sending supplies through Fascist Portugal to the rebels in Spain, especially airplanes, which have become the deciding factor in the conflict...
...anxiety neurosis, which unloads itself on the digestion, circulation and other bodily functions. The functional diseases of the heart, blood vessels or glands have increased more rapidly than the organic. A tactfully conducted pursuit of the causes removes the screen of headache, insomnia, indigestion and fatigue and the anxiety factor stands revealed. Life has always had a certain amount of strain connected with it," continued the noble doctor. "That is the penalty we pay for living. But the stress of modern life is excessive. We seem these days to live by accident rather than...
...young graduate comprehends too little of the economic aspects of his work. It is still true that industrialists must think in terms of income and outgo, in terms of sales revenue and costs. The student can hardly learn too soon that the dollar sign is an unwritten but potent factor in every industrial chemical education."-Emile F. du Pont, personnel manager of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...