Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high hurdles, continued it in the lows, won the broad jump, and then topped his afternoon's performance off with a victory leap in the high jump just to get a good appetite for supper. It is surely not too much to say that this athlete will be a factor on next year's team...
...course true that we can judge only form a Freshman point of view. Yet this factor should make our report valuable as a record of first-year experience. We will achieve our greatest object if our work is accepted as an expression of Freshman opinions combined with various suggestions for improvement...
...financial leaders have been hammering away at the surtaxes as a "potent secondary cause of stock market inflation." In a period when all tax methodology is being reexamined, it would seem imperative in the interests of stability, to repeat the capital gains taxes, and thus remove one more potential factor in a fatal inflationary move...
...remedying them. In particular they seemed lost in the woods of psychobiology. According to this conception, which Dr. Adolf Meyer of Baltimore created, the well-rounded physician should simultaneously treat the mind, soul and body of each patient. To do the job well the physician must learn how each factor of that trinity affects the other in health and disease. Among consequences of Dr. Meyer's teachings were studies tendered in St. Louis on "The Psychic Component of the Disease Process (including convalescence) in Cardiac, Diabetic & Fracture Patients," "Female Sex Hormones in Involution Melancholia...
...single factor that a patient fears most after an operation is, not death, but pain. The most potent analgesic known is mental distraction."-Dr. Thomas Johannes Heldt, Detroit...