Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long ago Foreign Minister Stresemann of Germany publicly declared (TIME, Dec. 20) that M. Vandervelde's personal mediation between the statesmen of Europe was an important factor in rendering possible the entry of Germany into the League...
...Full name: New York, Chicago & St. Louis R. R. This is but one factor of the Van Sweringen's Nickel Plate System...
...making the most interesting experiment the world has ever known. "Stalin is the most important man in Russia and virtually the head of it, although he is not even in the Government, but is the Secretary of the Communist Party. Trotzky, whatever you hear, will always be a factor. Since he is Commissioner of Concessions, we did most of our business with him. Even a prejudiced person cannot talk to him without realizing the enormous vigor and capacity of the man. He is a 'humdinger.' "I had made something of a study of Russia last spring...
...Solomon Loeb left the Jewish community in Cincinnati where they had become prosperous commission men. They realized better than most men that the Civil War meant a change to U. S. civilization, that the railroads ?then grimy, haphazard affairs, spattered with tobacco juice?would become a great factor in that civilization. They went to Manhattan where Jay Gould (1836-92), James Fisk (1834-72) and Daniel Drew (1797-1879) were forcing from Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) control of the Erie, and where Commodore Vanderbilt himself was forcing his way to the control of the New York Central. When...
Hoppe believes that his ability to concentrate is another factor in his success. "From the time I take a cue in my hand," he said, "my mind is on nothing but the game. Incidentally, I have found that this not only helps my own game but operates as a sort of mental hazard to my opponents. An attitude of indifference toward the other fellow's game and an obvious confidence in your own, coupled with an extreme care in every shot, eventually forces him to the conclusion that you are in fallible and breaks down his morale...