Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile Dean Donham has never ceased hammering on the "human factor in business." His humanism went well beyond how-to-win-friends- & -influence-peo-ple; one of his well-heeded friends was Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead...
...beating Princeton last week, Pennsylvania proved itself a factor, but the Quakers lack weight and are not really counted as competition. Tech, also, is considered way out of the running, and if it finishes better than last, it will be an upset...
...most important factor in the work is the men themselves. The most desirable candidates for the Grant Study should not be "nonentities," and should have no marked physical or mental defects. Thus the selection is careful and detailed, necessitating the checking and re-checking of the names of students in the Freshman class. Eliminated at the very beginning of the sorting process are those with low academic rating. These make up approximately 40 per cent of the class. Next the Hygicne Department records of the remaining 60 per cent of the original 1000 are read through, and those who seem...
...second factor lies in the inaccessibility of the enemy. Although we, are able to come to grips with the Japs, the Axis, which we are told is our prime enemy, is out of reach. It is hard to hate when you can't do anything about it, and that has been the predicament of the American people up to the present time...
...tigers, leopards-trophies of campaigns he won while hunting in Burma, India, Africa. A rich man, "Tink" always paid the election bills, never deigned to campaign, let his friends do the electioneering. But no more. "Tink" says that old age prompts him to retire after 28 years, admits another factor is a Congressional reapportionment in his Massachusetts district breaking up his solid block of adherents in both parties...