Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians took Kharkov. But this skeleton of a once great city was no longer as important as it had been a month earlier. The Red Army sought space, not cities. Space was armor to protect the recaptured strongholds from counterattacks. Space gained was also momentum maintained-a crucial factor in a great offensive...
...Duncan Norton-Taylor had an answer to the question, why do not the Allies start an all-out Pacific push? The answer: they are not able to, nor will they be in the immediate future. Even if enough men and supplies were made available in the Pacific, the great factor against the Allies would still be distance, the thousands of miles of water over which the Navy, with too few cargo ships and transports, must carry supplies...
...time, but Admiral Yarnell's plan lias both scope and authority. He sees consolidation as the logical course after demobilization. He points out the unhappy position of aviation between the two stools of Army and Navy in the present setup. Says he: "Air power has become a determining factor in military operations . . . [yet] there have been cases . . . where naval air operations were directed by commanders with no aviation experience." Then he leapfrogs the separate-air-force zealots by recalling the "lamentable failure" of the R.A.F. "in its support of naval and military operations" early...
...both of these arguments were based on rational grounds, but the realist school of thought failed to take one factor into consideration--just how bad Mr. Hall's acting actually was, It's not bad in the conventional Hollywood sense; it stinks. And consequently Hall, handsome or no, body or no, is a failure in his latest picture, "White Savage...
...number and estimated ability of the men turning out tonight will probably be the deciding factor in making the schedule, since at the moment nobody knows what talent is available. The intramural program will also be affected by the turnout...