Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the most determining factor in the future happiness and success of the newly-planted Freshman sapling is the opinion of him which is held by Cambridge Yard Cops, Check-Cashers, Tailors, Barbers, Janitors, Liquor Store Clerks...
...Acceptance of Responsibility. Said Professor Hayes: "We were the finally determining factor in winning the last World War, but . . . even more than Nazi Germany, we have been responsible for losing the peace and bringing on the present World War. We insisted on our rights and spurned our duties. . . . We repudiated the League of Nations . . . and thus set the pace for all its later floutings by other powers. Moreover, we selfishly and shortsightedly refused to forgive the Inter-Allied debts and thereby prevented any timely forgiving of the fateful German reparations. The result is that Germany now has Hitler, while...
...with its lengthy stretches of daylight (in the region of Iceland as much as 24 hours), is considered one of the best months for maritime raiding. (The Nazis burbled that they had already sunk so much enemy tonnage that the Atlantic was virtually free of merchant shipping.) Undoubted contributing factor: withdrawal of long-range Nazi bombers to the Russian Front...
Food, the most important single element in morale, is a crucial factor in World War II, and the struggle for it was one of the major battles last week. The plantings and the harvests of 1941 and 1942, if their power were understood and they were properly geared into the major strategy of the war, might be the determining factor. Certainly the nation which won the Battle of Food would sit at the head of the peace-conference table...
...third group was made up of the weaker, just-one-more side of almost every U.S. businessman. Henderson regards this as the strongest factor influencing price rises. Although all sane businessmen fear inflation, none regards "a leetle bitsy price rise in his own industry" as responsible for it. To businessmen in certain long-depressed industries, higher prices seem simple justice, reviving dreams of some pre-1929 parity of their own. Example: real estate (whose owners would emerge mortgage-free from any real inflation...