Word: factor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also for reasons concerning the good of man. The pre-eminence of the values of the spirit defines the proper sense of earthly material goods and the way to use them. This pre-eminence is therefore at the basis of a just peace. It is also a contributing factor to ensuring that material development, technical development and the development of civilization are at the service of what constitutes man ... A critical analysis of our modern civilization shows that in the last hundred years it has contributed as never before to the development of material goods, but that it has also...
...paper, Brown was a stronger team; but we played a smarter game," Scalise said. "Conditioning was a major factor because even though they were pressuring us, we were able to beat them to the ball...
...pivoted on the same philosophical question, i.e., how to impose values on a neutral universe; and both dwelt on despair as a source of grim comedy. But they were also set in a recognizable version of Maryland's Eastern Shore and populated with conventional characters. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) changed course. An encyclopedic parody of 18th century English picaresque fiction, the novel was also a comic meditation on early colonial American history. From a few factual clues, Barth dreamed up a fancy as convoluted and funny as any in postwar American fiction...
...knees and nightie anyroad, and to't till I'm proper ploughed and seeded." This language has nothing to do with Lady Amherst, a 20th century gentlewoman; it is present only because it echoes the 18th century patois of The Sot- Weed Factor...
...military women are with child. While some oldtimers grumble that the armed forces are turning into a giant maternity ward, officers are struggling manfully to accommodate the pregnant. Says Vice Admiral Thor Hanson, staff director for the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "It will have to become a factor, like actuarial tables...