Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Market confidence" is a big factor in the current art boom, but as in the stock market, the experts have sometimes been caught with their stocks down. Items: John Singer Sargent's watercolors, worth $20,000 in the '205, today can be picked up for around $1,000. Alphonse de Neu-ville's flagwaving scene from the Franco-Prussian war, The. Last Cartridges, whooped up to $40,000 in gold in 1890, was auctioned off six years...
...important factor was the teeth-jarring, bone-crushing factional fight between Republican Governor George North Craig (TIME, March 7) and U.S. Senator William E. Jenner. In Indianapolis, the Craig-backed Republican candidate for mayor, James Birr, had won a bitter primary fight over a candidate backed by G.O.P. Mayor Alex M. Clark, who is anti-Craig. Clark was nominally for Birr in the general election, but his heart was not in it. Democrat Phillip L. Bayt won by 16,000 votes. The defeated Birr sulked: "It is clear-cut evidence that you can sulk your way into socialism...
...Smith girls enrolled in religion courses has doubled to 442 since 1950. On campus after campus, says Amherst's James Martin, "there is what one might call at least a new look at the values of our Hebrew-Christian heritage, not only as a neglected and important factor in our cultural history, but also as a possible source of faith for living in today's world-or yesterday's, or tomorrow's. For some men the new look is a second look at ideas and personalities briefly encountered in Sunday school and long since dismissed...
...Talbot made his rounds, he found that the trouble among dwindling breeds was almost always man, and that there was generally some factor involved besides mere competition for land and food. Rhinos, for instance, are persistently hunted all over Southeast Asia because they are believed to have medicinal value. The Chinese consider powdered rhinoceros horn a powerful aphrodisiac (it is not), and will pay $2,500 for a single horn. Other parts of the animal, too have honored places in the Asian pharmacopoeia. Cups made of rhino horn detect poison by shattering to bits or by making the poison bubble...
...left-inside Steve Parker caught a lateral pass in the month of the goal, and kicked into the close corner. Right wing Bab Fung caught another pass in the fourth quarter and scored to make the final tally 2 to 0. A solid Leverett forward line was the main factor in shutting out the Elephants...