Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freshmen who have shown promise will have adapted themselves to the strain of University competition, and that the men who are unused to Reg Root's coaching will by that time be fully adapted to the ways of their new teacher. And as a final and tremendously important factor, it is essential that Bernie Rankin and Joe Johnson, big ends who are new at that job this year, will have come around under Charley Comerford's teaching until they are thoroughly used to the change...
...indeterminate factor, and perhaps the decisive one, is the Socialist Party. How powerful it is, one has no exact way of telling; the last elections are all but forgotten. But it may be that it is the real defence against an Anschluss, for though the Socialists hate Dollfuss, they hate the Nazis, Austrian and German, even more, and have announced their readiness to proclaim a general strike, or at the worst, civil war, if any Nazi putsch is attempted. It would be odd indeed, though not improbable, if the Little Napoleon were kept in power by the party...
...commenting upon this exhibition, authorities agree that such expositions and exhibitions have perhaps changed the character of American architecture of the last forty years more than any other factor. They think that the exhibition is an assertion that the confusion of the past forty years, or rather of the past century, may shortly come...
Answering a query in respect to the trend in music at the present time, Ramona declared, "New York beer gardens are doing as much as any other one factor to effect the transition toward European popular music. They play German and Viennese waltzes almost exclusively, you know, and the public likes them. I'm only surprised that this type of music has not made greater progress already, because New York is certainly waltz-minded; and as New York goes, so usually goes the rest of the country in this respect...
...chief factor contributing to the reluctance of men to take high priced rooms is native economy. In addition, the advantages of "expensive suites" are little greater than those of more moderate rooms. Since the rooms themselves are certainly fairly even in affection with ten exceptions, a spread in reuis from $100 to $500 does not accurately measure the relative values received. Men who realize this seek the cheapest room available. Few men of ample means are altruistic enough to take expensive rooms for the sake of making possible low-priced accommodations for their less affluent colleagues. Nor are they moved...