Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...football teaching department, Lamar believes proper blocking and tackling to be of the essence, and holds that position is the vital factor. "If you can teach a man position, the man can do the rest of it if he wants to play. Knowing how to play a man, knowing angles of pursuit and angles of power are very important...
Whatever the impact of those forces, they produce a student body which is subtle as Sphinx, many-sided and totally lacking in unity of approach or opinion on almost any subject. This breakdown of the undergraduates into group after self-sufficient group is probably the most significant psychological factor in the College today. Schizophrenia, it might be called, and it is unique and potent: not even the most basic conception of "school spirit" serves in Cambridge as it does at New Haven or Princeton to tie atomized particles of the student body together. Here one proud band isolates itself behind...
...Greene is right, a cure for cancer may depend on finding the unknown factor that arrests the development of embryonic cells. To prove that there is only a thin dividing line between embryonic tissue and cancer, he treated embryonic tissue with cancer-inducing chemicals and implanted the treated tissue in animals. Result: the animals developed cancers in record time...
...their recreation each day, the badly understaffed houses cannot give an adequate measure of individual instruction, much less reach their maximum capacity. While Harvard contributes a larger share of Settlement House workers than any organization in Cambridge or Boston, the tremendous College potential has never been tapped. The only factor hampering a really effective program of recreation for Cambridge children and a large scale expansion of Settlement House services is the number of men willing to give their time to social work...
...Department of Commerce pointed out that the figures included inventory profits (i.e., values added to stored goods because of rises in their market prices), "which, in the recent period of rising prices, have been an important factor in the advance of reported profits." But inventory profits showed a declining trend in the first half of this year; if they were excluded, earnings would still show a rise through June. Current profit levels in wholesale and retail trades, the Department added, were probably lower, due to rising costs...