Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...training I received on the Harvard CRIMSON in 1922, 1923, 1924, and 1925 was of enormous value. As I look back on it now, I am convinced that the Harvard CRIMSON work was about as important a factor in my education as everything else during my three and a half years at Cambridge...
...would have to be enlarged, teaching methods in some of the graduate schools might even have to be revised. So a return to the size for which it was built seems about the only course left for the University to take-but not until veterans are no longer a factor, of course...
Finally, it is this department's impression, without wishing to question the parties concerned, that the so-called player "rebellion" was strictly passive during the season and that its exposure after the Yale game was a contributing factor to the resignation. Harlow is not one to resign under fire, but he probably realized that as a sick man he could not handle any squad trouble. With his dominating voice and energy gone, team spirit had to suffer, and those who cannot condone the player revolt can at least understand its causes...
Meanwhile Jerry Nason hinted in the Boston Globe that Harlow's resignation had not only been forced by poor health, but that "a player revolt of last Autumn was also a factor...
...letting U.S. bond prices drop, Federal Reserve raised the yield on them slightly. Since Government bonds are the biggest factor in setting interest rates on all forms of business loans, Federal Reserve's action will tend to force up all interest rates. This was a gesture to those who have complained that its failure to use all its powers to curb credit is letting the boom get out of hand. Credit would not be tightened much by the move, but it was a starter...