Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this spring, beating Rhode Island State, 14 to 8, last Saturday. In view of that record and the veteran lineup, Stahl fears the Huskies as one of the strongest aggregations the Varsity will have to face all year. Excepting only the hurling department, which is something of an unknown factor, today's opponents will muster a squad as imposing as Princeton...
That technological unemployment and "oversaving" are basic causes of depressions; that economic frontiers have been reached and the opportunities for private capital investment are decreasing; that public-works programs can raise the living standard; that heavy armaments expenditures produce prosperity; that a big factor in past U.S. prosperity was rising real-estate prices...
...lines Spykman condenses the viewpoint about which German geopoliticians have written volumes: "Geography is the most fundamental factor in the foreign policy of states because it is the most permanent. Ministers come and ministers go, even dictators die, but mountain ranges stand unperturbed." Out of this idea the Germans have made their fashionable theory of geopolitics, and the Nazis have made history...
...write insurance as it is done in Britain, where an insurance company does not insure a property but insures a man against the loss of his property, thus giving the character of the insured an important weight in figuring the risk. U.S. practice ignores the moral factor, and bases rates entirely on the location and type of property insured. (In three-quarters of the States it is now illegal to sell insurance for less than the standard rates established by rating associations, which are the same for all companies...
...careful check-up should be made at the end of the initial six week period to decide whether or not the theory has actually panned out in practice. A poll of student interest or apathy would give an indication of the psychology of the plan, which is a vital factor to its working. Fatigue lab tests on Grant Study students, whose physical stamina before conditioning has already been determined, would give a good cross section measurement of the actual success or failure of the plan...