Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steam locomotive was, as everybody knows, a potent factor in the historical growth of America, spreading with the railroad into the everyday existence of people everywhere. Few early observers were friendly toward this snorting monster; they found it smelly, noisy, and even dangerous to the established horse and buggy order. But, as time went on, the steam engine became a familiar and even nostalgic item on the national scene...
...Ph.D. is bound to defy exact definition in terms of time. But yet need the time-factor be so very imprecise? Generally the Ph.D. takes at least four years to get; more often it takes six or seven, and not infrequently ten to fifteen...
...absence of any real local issues, the campaign has taken on national overtones. It is automatically assumed that Meyner has presidential aspirations for 1960. And the Republicans have come to regard the election as an important national morale factor...
Financial considerations proved the greatest single factor causing students accepted for the class of 1961 to decline admission, according to a poll sponsored by the Admissions and Scholarships Committee...
Scholarship aid proved the decisive factor in many cases. The Department of Financial Aid refused to grant assistance to 132 eligible candidates, almost all of whom received scholarships from other colleges. On the other hand, only five potential students out of 22 rejected Harvard financial aid in favor of Brown, Dartmouth, M.I.T., or Princeton...