Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game was a decided letdown from the varsity's top performance of the season against Williams last week, but injuries again were a major factor in the defeat. Dick MacKinnon guarded the nets gamely, in spite of a shoulder separation suffered in practice Thursday, but on at least four goals he just couldn't raise his stick fast enough to block the shot...
...Quirk's status promises to be an even more important factor in the game. The speedballing lefthander has built up an astounding 9-1 won-loss record this season, with four victories and one defeat in the league. The loss came at the hands of Penn in an 11-inning, 4-3 game last Saturday. According to Dartmouth coach Tony Lupien, Quirk is still tired from that game, but "if he feels up to it, he'll pitch against Harvard...
Political lightning in Ohio is a fairly predictable factor. Last week Buckeye Republicans were almost certain that the man who will be illumined by the big G.O.P. bolt in next week's gubernatorial primaries is low-voltage incumbent C. (for nothing) William O'Neill, who is mending political fences and spending $750,000,000 for such public works as highways and mental hospitals. But standing by in case lightning turns fickle is Cincinnati Councilman Charles Phelps Taft, 60, brother of the late Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. Charlie Taft filed as a last-minute fill-in candidate when...
...habits, e.g., those of the breast, prostate, stomach, colon, rectum and uterus, as well as leukemia, occurred at just about the same rates in both Adventist and non-Adventist patients. This uniformity led Drs. Wynder and Lemon to conclude that heavy cigarette smoking and hard drinking are indeed major factors in lung or mouth cancer and in hastening death from atherosclerosis (hardening) of the coronary arteries. "We propose," they said, "that smoking, though not causing atherosclerosis as such, adds to the already damaging effect of atherosclerosis upon the circulatory system." As for air pollution, they noted that more than half...
...Cortlandt, a municipal course, is badly run down, with dirt at the tees and a poor green. Columbia's familiarity with the links may prove to be the decisive factor in the match...