Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This big (790-page) novel by the author of Mozart and Of Lena Geyer is an unusually successful attempt to dramatize the central factor in the last half-century of U.S. life-big industry. To most writers, industry has been a monster-to be avoided as too grim or assailed as too inhuman. To Novelist Davenport industry is a fact to be understood. Her approach to such understanding is through the human relationships of a steelmaking family. The Valley of Decision is also a chronicle of American family life. It begins in the 1870s, when young men were dazzling...
...vitamin instead of the real, the bacteria fail to multiply, so that the blood's white corpuscles can easily destroy their limited numbers. How slight is the lethal error which the bacteria make is shown by the similar chemical names: sulfanilamide is para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide; the growth factor is para-amino-benzoic acid...
...Many bacteria need another B factor, pantothenic acid, to thrive. So Bacteriologist Henry McIlwain of Sheffield, England, reasoned that bacteria might likewise mistake a compound called pantoyltaurine for its chemical relative, pantothenic acid. His hunch was right, and his discovery may well lead to development of a second group of bacteria-hoaxing chemicals comparable to the sulfa-group...
...decisive factor in Dartmouth's victory came after Chuck Richardson had taken sixth place for the Green when three Hanover harriers, Dick Whiting, Stan Waterman, and Captain Bob Williams, scored a three-way tie for seventh place...
...from the United States finds its roots in conflicting ideas of superiority, according to de Haas. Pointing out that both the United States and Argentina see themselves as vastly superior nations, the Business School professor explained that Argentina resents the attempts of the United States to become the dominating factor in South American problems, inasmuch as the considers herself the rightful leader. Changes along this line in American diplomacy will have to take place, the professor said, before we can hope to establish real good will in South America...