Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consumption of wheat flour is reported to be continually increasing in the Far East, and in North China in particular, to which factor the present world shortage may be partly attributed...
...spats settling only at low tide. That is when the salt sound water is most diluted by the fresh river water. Something in the river water evidently makes the very young oysters want to nestle to a stone or shell. By tedious eliminations, Mr. Prytherch determined that this settling factor is a trace of dissolved copper. Injurious to plant and animal life when administered in large quantities, copper sulphate may now become one of the tools of oyster farming. And copper (also iron, magnesium) makes oysters a fine blood-builder in the human diet...
...along with this intellectual emancipation, a highly desirable factor in progressive institution, is placed side by side the incongruous system of compulsory class attendance. It is the ever-present life-buoy thrown out by the suicide, who generally does not avail himself...
Undoubtedly the recent experience of the University in connection with the Scrubwomen case was an important factor leading ot the establishing of the new office. Its creation is, however, in line with the recent developments in the University which extend personal advisory services to students. Success in these ventures naturally leads to the idea that the personnel factor should receive serious consideration in the direction of the University's non-educational employees. Several months ago the Corporation announced that an outside firm had been engaged to make a survey of the non-educational employment situation. Since no information...
...Loew's investment at the price which Mr. Fox paid. Yet the market is now less than half that price, and if Fox were to rewrite its Loew's investment down to market, its $5,000,000 surplus would become a $35,000,000 deficit. Another factor which made O. P. M. scarce last week was the absence of any Fox balance sheet later than Sept. 27, 1930. The stated reason for this absence was a difference of opinion on how to depreciate talking films. The bankers for Fox said that their accountants have deducted more than...