Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...factor that will do more than anything else to aid the cause of aviation, will be the advance of the science of meteorology. Until flyers have some accurate way of determining the weather before starting on a flight, there will always be expense and a low factor of safety connected with aviation. As long as flying can be considered a dangerous luxury for individuals, conservatives will criticise it with some degree of impunity as an evil and unnecessary invention...
...pratical agricultural training as it is being taught in numerous institutions does give the future farmer a better idea of his problems, if it does nothing else. Economically neither the urban nor rural class can exist without the other; intrinsically, neither is the more important. The press, the chief factor in forming opinion, unfortunately emphasizes the sins of the younger and metropolitan generation and gives little regard to the boys and girls from the farm who will make in tomorrow's producers. The New Republic states that "rurality has degenerated into dependency on urban life." Like the writer's other...
...Factor in Progress of Science...
Motor Transportation. Railroads are now beginning to look upon the motor bus as co-operative rather than competitive factor. Fifty railroads in the U. S. and Canada now use motor buses and trucks for passengers and shipping...
...Occident, or the meaning of a certain Shakespearean passage, or even the scores of Harvard-Yale football games are forgotten, the graduate will still carry with him memory of some inspiring teacher with whom he has come in contact and whose influence, exerted perhaps indirectly, has been a vital factor in his life. Professor Copeland has a club in New York made up of alumni who felt his influence. Probably two out of three undergraduates now in Cambridge whose fathers are alumni who felt his influence. Probably two out of three undergraduates now in Cambridge whose fathers are alumni have...