Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last of the 437 combat ships lost by the U.S. Navy in World War II. Her loss led to the first general court-martial of a ship's commanding officer. In most cases where ships were sunk, routine reports were enough to show that negligence was not a factor; in others, courts of inquiry reached the same finding. Not so in the case of the cruiser which carried parts of the first atomic bomb to the Marianas, only to be lost a few days later on the way to Leyte, with the heaviest casualty list of any U.S. ship...
...very important factor in Yale's showing will probably be the return of end, captain, and erstwhile All-American Paul Walker, whose playing abilities are not his only contribution to the team. His presence in Palmer Stadium last week pulled the Elis out of the doldrums that allowed two Princeton scores before five minutes of the first period had passed and molded them into a hard-hitting unit--effective if not spectacular...
...girl with the sniffles was a clear case of psychosomatics. The vogue of psychosomatic (mind and body) medicine is so new that the word is in only the newest medical dictionaries. But good doctors have always known that the mind can cause aches & pains, can even be a major factor in diseases, including infections. Dr. Leland Hinsie, Columbia professor of psychiatry, has written a little book, The Person in the Body (W. W. Norton; $2.75), which gives many examples of the tricks the mind can play on the body...
...another role-one equally important to China's destiny. They were the spearheads thrust by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek into North China and Manchuria to accept the Japanese surrender and to meet the military challenge of the Chinese Communists (see FOREIGN NEWS). They may well become the decisive factor in their nation's civil...
Like the other 23 patients described in a recent book by five Manhattan doctors (Personality in Arterial Hypertension), her life had been sensationally unhappy. The doctors think this common factor significant. Is there some connection between emotional upheaval and high blood pressure? The doctor-authors speculate: emotional tension makes blood vessels constrict and cuts the flow of blood to the kidneys. The kidneys, short of blood, release a chemical which raises blood pressure...