Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shepard's forward line will have Rockwell, Jim Gabler, Quent Stiles, and Gerry Murphy. Gabler's shooting eye has been accurate all fall, and his set-shots should be an important factor in the team's scoring. Murphy, another sophomore, is fast and shifty, a good man for the quick-break work which Shepard emphasizes...
When reasoning why the Harvard man is such a prize catch, there is one important factor that the merits of the School's case system should not overshadow: the Business School's student is a remarkably able man even before he begins his two years across the Charles...
Every year, some 10,000 ailing babies are born in the U.S. to parents with hostile blood types caused by the mysterious Rh factor.† Even with the most modern treatment, the best that doctors could hope for in such cases was to hold the death rate down to 20%. Last week, after listening to a pessimistic summary of these facts, doctors at the American Academy of Pediatrics convention in San Francisco heard some unexpected good news. Dr. Louis K. Diamond of Boston Children's Hospital rose from the audience and said quietly: "I would be remiss...
...Chance. All that is known about the Rh factor has been learned since 1940, when it was found to occur in the blood of 85% of white people, more than 90% of Negroes. It causes trouble after Rh-positive blood (containing the factor) gets into the bloodstream of an Rh-negative woman (whose blood lacks the factor). This may happen either by transfusion or in carrying the child of an Rh-positive father. The woman's Rh-negative blood then develops antibodies to destroy the alien Rh factor. She may transmit these antibodies to her infant...
...undergraduate who is forced to get his date out of his room--and in many Houses the building too--by 8 p.m. even on weekend evenings, and who cannot hold parties in his room after that hour. He may realize that the protection of his guests' reputation is a factor in the College's rulings, or that an out-of-hand party can be just as disturbing to other House residents as to the College. But he does not see why one particular hour is the magic dividing line between right and wrong, nor why a more satisfactory plan could...