Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there are many hurdles to leap, many jitters to calm before the movies and television can make beautiful pictures together. James C. Petrillo's A.F.M. forbids the televising of any major films-past or present-using union musicians. Result: only B pictures or antiques reach the telescreen. Another factor: cautious, fiercely competitive Hollywood moves slowly-as it did in taking up sound 21 years ago. The highest hurdle is the real, ever-present fear that the living room teleset will make a deep dent in the nation's movie box offices...
Full-Grown Shoot. A factor in Earl Long's primary victory was the strength of Judge Robert Kennon, who was all but counted out in the early betting. He ran on an all-G.I. ticket and corralled 125,606 votes, many of which might have gone to Jones. Fourth in the primary was tough-talking Congressman Jimmy Morrison, another old aerial root off Louisiana's once-flourishing political banyan tree...
...distinctly unathletic factor-probation--will loom large in shaping events for the hockey team in the tough second half of its schedule. Several much-needed men are already doing their only skating in the direction of academic doom, and if you believe Coach Chase's typically gloomy forebodings, the rest of the team are all due to join them...
...with new annual growth. First, let us look at the modern counterpart of the old 1918 student. Today's undergraduate is a more mature, a better poised, and a must better informed person. No middle-aged academic official would take issue in that point. And it is a basic factor in the present trends of college journalism...
...owners, endowed with an unusual degree of patience and fortitude, received the paper's printing contract that year and have maintained it from that time to this. The following year a press within the building was added to the CRIMSON's facilities, a potent factor in subduing the upstart Harvard Daily News...