Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When turtle-beaked Boss Curry became leader of Manhattan's Democracy five years ago, Tammany was the unchallenged political power in the nation's No. 1 city, a controlling factor in the State. Soon thereafter began a string of monotonous mistakes. Tammany stood by Mayor "Jimmy" Walker long after the dirt in the municipal nest foredoomed his Administration. Tammany put its bets on Al Smith instead of Franklin Roosevelt at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Tammany bucked the nomination of honest Herbert Henry Lehman for Governor of the State. Tammany foisted bumbling old John Patrick...
...Persistent lack of rain had parched the grain fields of the Dakotas, biggest of U.S. rye producers. Demand for rye on the other hand, normally 35,000,000 bu. per year, would be bigger, since at least 5,000,000 bu. were needed in the whiskey trade. Only one factor disturbed the waiting traders as they contemplated their market-millions of bushels of Polish rye in bonded warehouses along the Atlantic seaboard. By last week this stock was estimated at 9,000,000 bu., although the Government reported only 2,500,000 bu. on April...
...these stories from her father, who had heard them from his mother, who had heard them from some one else. Of such is history made. This legendary atmosphere helps to make the story vivid but it also brings the kitchen-parlor element into unfortunate prominence. It is the first factor in making the book a colloquial story rather than a history...
...second factor is Miss Sears' manner of expressing herself. Choosing excerpts from a book is a vicious practice, but one example will illustrate this point unfortunately well and will serve as an all too fitting conclusion. Here is Miss Sears' eulogy of the slain Indian Metacom (King Philip): "Metacom--mighty warrior!--mighty patriot!--they could speak sneeringly of him now that he was lying dead in the mud, lie at whose name they had quailed when life was vibrant in him. They drag that kingly form through the mire and buffet it as nothing now but an old piece...
...thinking which enables the student to get immediately to the crux of a problem. The ordinary graduate faces detailed and intricate questions which he must be able to solve. It is not what he learns as much as the way he has learned it which is the vital factor...