Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pancreas does not secrete enough insulin for the body's business. Such diabetics feel better if they get fats but no starches and sugars, thus resting their weary pancreases. Another type of diabetic suffers because, even if he produces a satisfactory amount of insulin, he has some inhibiting factor in his blood which prevents that hormone from acting on carbohydrates. That class of diabetics benefit, Dr. MacBryde found, when they eat great quantities of candy, pastry, bread, potatoes, spaghetti. The excess carbohydrate does two things. It blocks the action of that inhibiting agent, and it stimulates the pancreas supply...
...There is a factor that dwarfs all others, a factor you will find affecting the movements of politics and diplomacy in every country of Europe," cried Mr.Churchill, ". . . Whatever you believe, I venture to submit we cannot have any anxiety comparable to the anxiety caused by German rearmament...
...their reality is not questioned, then it seems at least possible that there was once life on the planet. In the past there was probably a greater abundance of oxygen, the only factor that forbids the present existence of life
...George E. Netcher out of New Bedford in 1842. Fifteen years later the U. S. S. St. Mary's formally took the islands for the U. S. What, then, was all the official secrecy about in reclaiming this land? The answer seemed to lie in a brand new factor in Pacific diplomacy: transoceanic airlines...
...rest of the game showed little difference in the strength of the opposing forces. Aside from Wood's shot the one factor instrumental in the home team win was the inspirational play of Captain John Dorman...