Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with francs at a reasonable rate, Britain can supply her expeditionary force in France with pounds; 3) neither country will raise foreign loans without consultation; 4) both will collaborate on internal price policies. The accords were entirely unprecedented. In World War I, which was virtually decided by the economic factor, the two countries had nothing but a common grain agreement and, in the last months, transport and food councils. Said suave French Finance Minister Paul Reynaud: "No better proof than this economic and financial accord could be found of the common will to carry this fight to a finish...
...Biggest factor in getting and keeping a job is oomph: at least half of the men & women who lose jobs (except in Depression layoffs) are fired for maladjusted personalities...
...dearth of students genuinely interested in their work cannot be blamed solely on teaching methods. Certainly another contributing factor is to be found in the fact that colleges and universities have so increased in both size and numbers that they include in their classes many unfitted to receive a liberal arts education. Just as there is no single cause for a decline in the number of students classed by Mr. Frost as "self-starters," so there is no single panacea which will remedy the situation. However, the inclusion on university faculties of men of Mr. Frost's liberal outlook...
...indeed ironic for a man to show women that men can be eliminated as a reproductive factor. Of course your article [reporting how Dr. Gregory Goodwin Pincus fertilized a rabbit ovum without the help of a male rabbit and brought the offspring successfully to birth] stated: "This work will in no way affect the manner of living or customs," but just let some women get their hands on his formula and develop it further and in another hundred years or so, men will be absent from this earth...
Dave Egan of the Record: "Harvard by one touchdown. Dick Harlow is the greatest coach in the game, which should prove an all-important factor. I wish the boys all the luck in the world...