Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...campaign wore on, and the CCF played to packed rallies, it began to look as if the socialists would be a major factor-by drawing votes from the old-line parties. But in the end, York-Sunbury was less interested in political ideologies than in having a Cabinet minister in Ottawa...
Last week Lansing, part way through his experiments, had already reached a few tentative conclusions: 1) some factor that controls aging is carried by the egg; 2) the same mysterious agent that stimulates growth is apparently concerned with senescence...
...labored realism, but concentrate on significant details or on impressionistic views of the city, and the implications become those of timelessness as well as reality. Victor McLaglen is the Judas, the Faust, and although his story relates closely to the particular environment, he is the most important factor himself, and could be transplanted to almost any time or place...
...complete rearrangement of Freshman affairs is needed, with the Union as the dominant factor. Begun fairly unsuccessfully last winter, this rearrangement includes forums, dances, weekly movie nights, as well as pleasant surroundings. But last year the handicap of having two thousand Freshmen seemed too much for the officials and students. The new secretary of the Union is a young and vital man, and he is using this year's class as guinca pigs for the experiment of restoring the club-like atmosphere as well as the activities to the Union. But at the present there is not enough impoius toward...
Harvard's potential voting power is equally important under the present plan for city-wide balloting. With only 52,000 registered voters in the city of Cambridge, a large number of student votes could easily prove the balancing factor in a close race. The slight five to four majority for the proponents of Managerial Government in the Cambridge City Council indicates the respective power of opposing factions and points towards a heated struggle for governmental control...