Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bouts were hotly and evenly contested throughout, and the excellent fencing of Captain C. B. Hollister '29, who won all three of his matches, proved the major factor in his team's victory...
...English High School yesterday afternoon at Hemenway Gymnasium. Although many of the bouts were close the first-year Foilsmen proved themselves generally superior and won handily. Captain H. B. Wesselman '31 was the outstanding fencer of the match, winning all three of his bouts and proving himself the major factor in his team's victory...
...make education attractive, there has been of late a tendency to make it too easy. "Repeated mental exertion becomes a habit, one of the most valuable a man can possess. In fact the habit of overcoming obstacles is a large factor in the condition of mind that is properly called education; for the quantity of knowledge obtained when one leaves school is far less important than the ability to acquire knowledge and to think clearly on hard problems...
...hailed as of great significance in promoting friendly relations between the United States and China. President J. Leighton Stuart, of Yenching University, here on a visit, predicts that the organization in general supervision of the work, called the Harvard Yenching Institute of Chinese Studies, will become "a strong factor in cementing the friendship between the United States and China, which is of such critical importance in the political future of the whole Pacific basin. The Chinese themselves have recently been awakened to a new interest in their national culture. A better understanding of this culture by the outside world...
Meanwhile the inexplicable had happened. Price McKinney, who had been making the partnership a stronger and stronger factor in the U. S. steel industry, reorganized it as a corporation. He could do so because he was trustee of the Corrigan estate. The new company's name was the McKinney Steel Co., with Price McKinney president. "Young Jim" Corrigan was vexed and left his London jovialities with 40% of McKinney Steel stock, bought 13% more, became president of the company...