Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...desire to hold public office as honorable as the aspiration for the ministry or medicine or law or the other professions? Yet we often find a timidity upon the part of college men to enter the arena of politics. Are the compensations adequate? This may be an important factor. A good lawyer can command greater fees in a single week than he would receive in an entire year in salary as a member of the President's cabinet. But there is a glamor to public life and a consciousness of being engaged in vitally important work that frequently offsets...
...result, the price rose slightly over 103. It then declined to 100 and a fraction, and there it stayed. Wall Street, as usual sceptical, is now wondering how many shares the syndicate is having to buy* to keep the price at this figure so consistently. Incidentally, this factor will determine the profits of the syndi cate in the deal. The payments made for the new Dodge securities proved a considerable influence on Wall Street money rates for a time, and tended to produce cheaper money there by the rapid piling up of funds in Manhattan banks...
...Gore Hall baseball team won a 3 to 1 victory over Standish yesterday afternoon in a seven inning game which marked the first of the inter-dormitory series. Baldwin at first base for Gore was the big factor in holding the Standish nine down to one tally...
Germany, with Bulgaria and Russia all too near, has recoiled from the dangers of communism. Marx was too much in sympathy with communistic ideals to guard Germany against a revolutionary future. Von Hindenburg's personel strength and conservative tendencies should be a stabilizing factor in the new political situation. Germany has swung, not towards militarism, but away from communism...
Coach Fisher insisted last night, "At the last of the winter meetings 150 men turned out. Every one of them will be a great factor in a successful spring workout. I cannot urge those men too strongly to recognize the importance of spring practice. If 150 men appear for spring practice, a new high record will have been...