Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Industry has become the chief factor in the present life of America, and its increase in power as a means of improving the standard of living for all classes has been such as to lead to similar development all over the world. Its needs have been many, and the activities of the Business Schools that have sprung up in various parts of the country become more numerous and varied every year. For its reports on business conditions the Harvard Business School has become especially noteworthy. With the recent increase in numbers it has made another stride in advance...
...invaders. Since that time French has been a consistent performer in all the games he has taken part in. His chief weakness lies in his susceptibility to injuries which have often kept him on the side lines when his presence in the line up might have been a deciding factor. If he succeeds in avoiding the injury jinx this season, his tremendous speed and wealth of experience should go far towards making the current season a successful...
...being over advertised by the clothiers of the smart set publications, and under appreciated or oftener unknown among those who find much of real beauty in other sports. One is glad that polo can be played and seen literally at Harvard. One is gladder that in this sport the factor of lost time has been erased...
...discussed high railroad freight rates as a factor in the Farm Problem: "It is as if a row of toll gates had been placed around this whole section of our country. ... Some calculations which I made a few years ago showed that the increases in railway rates had in effect moved the Midwest 200 to 400 miles further from seaboard...
...Greater Germany" [including Austria] "will once again become the determinant factor of history." But they will always be blamed for their conquests, because, unlike Englishmen, they are known to know when they have done wrong...