Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other name, the thermonuclear bomb was mushrooming into world consciousness as the most total single factor of power in history. The Administration decided to make certain that the U.S. knew as much about the problem as security would allow, determined to release to television and press next week an edited film of Operation Ivy, the first thermonuclear test at Eniwetok, in November 1952-complete with a montage of estimated effects of a similar bomb on Washington and Manhattan. And this week Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission returned to Washington from the atomic testing grounds to announce that...
...French fight? Because they are doing a job for the free world? Perhaps-but this is not the dominant factor. Duty? For the mercenaries and for those who carry on without expectation of victory, yes. But the answer one hears most is pride. It hardly seems enough, except that this is a special kind of pride. It is compounded of qualities like the insistence of De Gaulle in World War II on parity with Roosevelt and Churchill; it recalls France's insistence on a special German occupation zone and its determination to be acknowledged as a world power...
Catholics cited a variety of reasons for embracing Protestantism, ministers told the Herald in their replies. Among them: "Intellectual differences with Roman Catholic dogma, rebellion against [their church's] 'iron discipline' ... the simpler and more direct Protestant approach to worship." Biggest factor: "Mixed marriages, in which the Catholic party adopted the Protestant faith...
...fact that 85% of the boy babies born in U.S. private hospitals nowadays are circumcised, regardless of the parents' religious beliefs, may be an important factor in reducing cancer of the uterine cervix (neck of the womb) in years to come. Dr. Ernest L. Wynder. of Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases,* has reached this comforting conclusion after studying the striking differences in the incidence of cervical cancer among women with different marital histories...
...lack of excitement aboard the Windrush was definitely the decisive factor in the rescue, Albion said. He praised the conduct of Capt. W. Wilson, "a competent officer who took control of the situation during the first critical moments" and prevented any possible panic...