Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...College is simply too small to fulfill its great responsibilities to young womanhood in this country," Jordan claimed, citing the quality of applicants for admission in the last six years as the decisive factor in his conclusion. He said that "Radcliffe has no moral right to limit undergraduate enrollments to the present 1,097 under present circumstances and pressures...
Among the educator's recommendations was to deemphasize class rank as an important factor in college admission, so that bright students would not elect easy courses for high grades. For "highly-gifted" students, Conant suggested special work, a tutor, and college-level work as seniors. He recommended a tuition-free summer school operated by all school boards for ambitious students as well as deficient pupils...
However, Dean Bender notes that the cost of deconversion "is small in relation to other increases we are blithly considering, such as tuition." He feels that the issues should not be decided on the basis of "a single economic factor," and adds, "I am all for extensive deconversion for sound educational reasons...
...decisive factor on these drives was, generally speaking, the superior speed of the Soviet wings. In their playing pattern, one of the wings would speed down ice with the puck, drawing the Crimson players with him into a corner. Then the pass would go out to one of the points for a long shot on Pratt, and after the rebound, either from Pratt of off the boards, the Russians would play in front of the cage for the decisive shot, passing out to the point if the puck floated into a corner again...
...Cancer Research, the investigators describe ingenious mechanical smokers in which they burned pound after pound of pipe, cigar and cigarette tobacco. To make sure that cigarette paper is not a major factor, they had "all-tobacco" cigarettes specially made-wrapped in ordinary cigarette-tobacco leaf. Then they painted the collected tars on the shaved backs of mice, and counted the resulting cancers. While a mouse's back is admittedly not the same as the inside of a man's lung, histologists (tissue specialists) say that it is of essentially the same structure and shows similar reactions...