Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...drive against the agencies behind it. There are, moreover, facilities at the disposal of a criminal which make a crime a rather simple affair. Machine guns, automatic pistols, armored cars, and swift means of escape from pursuers, all combine to simplify the criminal's attempt. The last factor responsible for much of our crime is the ease with which an offender is able to escape punishment. Shyster lawyers, pleas of insanity, crooked judges, and bribed juries, make justice something to be laughed at rather than feared. Criminal after criminal has escaped retribution until the courts offer few perils...
...appearance of Hitler as the dominant force in Germany, far from being a serious menace to the peace of Europe, has instead made the possibility of war considerably less by destroying, or at least by temporarily suspending, the threatening France-Italian rivalry, which was potentially a far more dangerous factor than the loud bawlings and moaning of Hitler. It might have precipitated a war in which the whole of Europe would again have been divided into almost equal sides, and which consequently would have become a second world war. If war does come now it will undoubtedly...
...game was closer than the score indicates, and was well played throughout, but the more accurate shooting of the Lowell aggregation was the deciding factor. Walsh starred for the victors, amassing a total of eight points...
...Gill has been quick to evaluate and to capitalize his opportunity. He is obviously aware that the public is no mean factor in this case, and that already a very large body of informed opinion has swung his way. He apparently knows that the almost unanimous committment of the Boston Press against him has begun to weaken, and that, given sufficient excuse, important units may be won over. Yesterday's performance shows that, given an inch, he can easily assimilate a mile, that he is becoming aggressive, and that he has perhaps started the ball rolling...
Perhaps this was written with tongue in cheek, but it is open to a more serious interpretation as a statement of the author's real opinion. As such it is a prize example of that absurd undergraduate pomposity which has reduced so-called Undergraduate Opinion to a negligible factor outside the college world. Does Mr. Wade realize that he is merely making a fool of himself--that even an experienced literary critic of mature age and opinions could not make such a statement with impunity...