Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will of the people will be the deciding factor," President Paasikivi had promised the two million Finns who trooped quietly to the polls last week to elect a new Parliament. It was the first Finnish election since the signing of the Russo-Finnish "mutual assistance" pact (TIME, April 19). Early returns indicated that the Communist-led Democratic Union had lost at least eight of their 51 seats, dropped from first place to third. Finland's Agrarians and Social Democrats had gained enough to climb to first and second places...
...Thus far, Rubinstein has scooped her longtime rival Elizabeth Arden, who does not plan to push cosmetics for television until TV lights are standardized. NBC's experts use regular theatrical make-up (Stein's and Max Factor...
Governor Dwight Green of Illinois was having a case of actor's nerve. Aware that the Republican Convention would be televised, the silver-haired keynoter tiptoed into a television studio and tried on some faces. He tried eyebrow pencils, lipsticks and Pancake Make-up (neither Max Factor 23 nor Max Factor 29 was quite right, but Max Factor 28, a nice healthy brown, looked wonderful on the handsome governor). Thinking it all over, he settled for a fast barbershop...
When the individual has completed his four years in Cambridge, he has come out, if he is lucky, with what Henry Adams called the negative values of a Harvard education. That is to say, his mind is free. He has profited from what remains the most striking factor in the College: its individualism. Individualism, however, has the unpleasant effect in many cases of waste. It is this waste of the resources Harvard can offer that has made many educators here think in terms of more advice and control from the dean's office, prescribed courses, and similar remedies...
...most important factor is the concern of all the faculty and administration. That concern could be shown at once by the appointment of a body to investigate the education offered the individual at Harvard. $60,000 spent by a Committee on the relation of Harvard and the student would certainly produce results as interesting and as significant as those of the General Education Committee. Such a group would at all events help to create a thesis or an ideal at which the College could aim. It might also, in the long run, create a more positive education than that which...