Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right with the profit-making Japanese parents, it was not satisfactory to the Labor Ministry. Concluded the report: "The moral insensibility of mothers in rural areas who are constantly threatened by poverty and privation . . . is a major factor in preserving, if not encouraging, the human traffic practices that best symbolize the feudalistic darkness of Japan...
...Briand and Germany's Stresemann all got Nobel Peace Prizes. For a decade, statesmen spoke glowingly of the "spirit of Locarno." Germans were delighted: "Germany, which two years ago was isolated, spurned beneath the victors' heels, and seemed the poorest ragamuffin in Europe, today . . . becomes a factor of might once more," crowed the Berliner Tageblatt. Reassured by German pledges of good behavior, 1) Britain and France withdrew all occupation forces from the Rhineland, which Germany promised solemnly to leave demilitarized; 2) the League of Nations admitted Germany to membership. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill in 1929 called...
...makeup was handled by Specialist Syd Simons, who each day spent an hour and five Max Factor bases on Amy. He shadowed the sides of her nose ("That's not to say there's anything wrong with her nose, but we didn't want it to broaden under the bright, flat light"); shaded her cheeks to "minimize the puffiness" and darkened her neck so that "if she keeps her head up the folks won't see her double chin." Tastefully dressed in simple Sally Victor hats and Hannah Troy dresses ("We figure they...
What brought the ancient sport back to popularity? Among the reasons: 1) the increase in leisure time and the five-day week; 2) a growing trend away from private country-club golf toward public golf (construction of military and company courses has been a major factor); 3) improvement in equipment and in courses; 4) diligent promotional gilding of the golfing lily and, more than anything else, 5) the appearance of an exciting generation of durable (and now middleaged) champion golfers. Of the great stars, no one has done as much to bring about the revival of the game as Samuel...
...Main factor in the varsity's victory was the clutch pitching of Kon Rossano and Andy Ward, who split the pitching duties. Between them they left 14 Eli men on base...