Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calculus of power: how can I keep them bent to my will? Last week when the Kremlin extended its new conciliatory foreign policy line (see INTERNATIONAL), it was recognizing (as it often had before) that the blindfolded, voiceless 193,000,000 inhabitants of the U.S.S.R. were still a major factor in determining Russia's course...
...Canada, organized labor was reasonably well satisfied with recent wage boosts, and no one expected another round of demands for many months. By that time, Price Boss Donald Gordon hoped that supply & demand would keep prices in line. Another factor: a recent poll of Canadians showed a majority favored price control...
...encouraging factor is probably atomic energy. Chief trouble with earlier death rays was that no known source of radiation was strong enough to kill at a distance. But atom bombs do kill by radiation, mostly heat and gamma rays. If a method is developed to concentrate nuclear radiations into a narrow beam, death rays may be available to enliven World...
...factor in the case of the backstroking staff is whether Dave Murray, outstanding member, will graduate in February. "To lose him," the coach considers, "would be like starting football without Gannon." A versatile fellow with landlubber abilities, Murray holds the national record in the Javelin throw with 210 feet. In the meantime Bob Barnard is sure to see backstroking duties...
CAPTAIN DICK HOLLINGSHEAD, packing 210 pounds on his six foot two inch frame, is a sixty minute workhorse and an important factor in Yale's record of nine wins in thirteen games since he took over at the right tackle berth. An outstanding performer in last year's East-West tilt, Holingshead in Eli's sixty-seventh captain to lead his cohorts against the Crimson...