Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Large in the discussions of the Institute will figure, as always, such subjects as the problems related to the self-governing dominions of the British Empire, agriculture and population increase, the economic recovery of Europe, mineral resources as a factor in world affairs, limitation of armaments, international justice, inter-American relations, political problems of Europe and the Mediterranean area...
...Coal Co., "one of whose most influential stockholders is Andrew W. Mellon . . . perhaps the ablest Secretary [of the Treasury] since Alexander Hamilton, a man with admirable traits"; 3) the Bethlehem Mines Corporation, owned by the Bethlehem Steel Co., "of which Charles M. Schwab, a great American, is a dominant factor...
...ignominy of defeat, Constantine was for the second time chased from the country. He was succeeded by another son, Georgos II. The young King was moved by the best intentions, but was unable to keep his finger out of the political pie. This in itself was never a serious factor, but it entailed some friction and militated against political security at a time when calm was the one thing Greece needed. But the rise of ambitious soldiers like General Pangalos, who has been considered, even in Republican circles, as an adventurer with the Army behind him, was the chief cause...
...first thought that Britain was merely guaranteeing them against German aggression, cooled when they discovered that the suggested pact was a bilateral affair, capable of being used against them. But the fact that the might of the British Commonwealth would have to be confronted by an aggressor was a factor too important to be ignored. The French agreed; and an answer to the original German proposals was prepared for dispatch to Berlin...
...large gallery at Hartford saw Tennis Champion William T. Tilden II make his arms into pointed complements, while his body-the sum of their two right angles-remained a straight line that bounded from point to point of an oblong parallelogram of green turf, other factor of this geometric contes was Manuel Alonso, the Spaniard, whose returns went into the net, over the baseline, whose wrist played him false so that Tilden defeated him with ease, 6-4, 6-4, 6-1, winning the New England Tennis Championship...