Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kangaroos, blowfish and pelicans use flexible sacs. "The material rather than the shape is the critical factor . . . it must be light, strong, flexible and impervious. . . . Now in . . . aluminum and magnesium we have the means." Storage tanks have been built with flexible roofs of these metals. A slight difference between outside and inside atmospheric pressure balloons the roof...
...future. From Wilson's tragic failure he has drawn a powerful object lesson that America would do well to heed. To say that this picture has so far changed all American political thinking would not be true; but it cannot be denied that it has been a major factor in erasing isolationism of the millions...
...factor was political; general elections were near and it took no crystal gazer to detect what the people wanted...
...Republic, introducing Contributor Percy Winner to its readers last week, solemnly repeated his own fancy description of himself as a "depth journalist." Just what a depth journalist does was carefully explained by the editors: "He writes on psychological aspects of modern politics with special reference to the factor of mass irrationality...
President Roosevelt laid the policy's foundation before and at Yalta; President Truman carried on at Potsdam. The salient, underlying factor was Roosevelt's belief that: 1) China was the U.S.'s natural ally in Asia; 2) in her present and probable postwar weakness, China alone could not be relied on to withstand Russia's inroads. Roosevelt therefore reasoned that his only recourse was an attempt to build at least a temporary bridge of understanding between China and Russia, and hope that political or other conflict could be postponed during China's recovery. Soong...