Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effort to reduce costs, New York Steam maintains a large staff of engineers, does valuable research on combustion. Recent visitors to the plant have included technicians from the Japanese-owned South Manchurian Railway Co. which is considering installing similar service in the city of Dairen. A factor which has worried stockholders is the impression that Manhattan winters are becoming less severe. In its annual report, New York Steam discoursed upon this at length, concluded no such change is taking place...
...country and certainly 43,000,000 of them are at work." Then he gave his figures a political twist: "The workers of the country need the passage of the Tariff Act to remove uncertainty. . . . Delays in tariff legislation are more responsible today for creating unemployment than any other factor. Push the building program, pass the Tariff Bill and our worker will find employment...
...Geki is far easier for Occidentals to understand than the hoary dramatic rituals of China, in which scarcely any scenery is employed and such an apparently unimportant factor as the shape of a false beard may indicate the character of its wearer. In Koi-No- Yozakura (Romance in Cherry Blossom Lane) a sculptor creates the image of a dancing girl which comes to life and dances with him when he places a mirror, the Japanese symbol of a woman's soul, next to her heart. The speech is naturally modulated, emotions are patent on the faces, the scenery...
...University of Michigan he spent 13 years teaching in Colorado before coming to Harvard in 1891 at the request of President Eliot as assistant professor of History and the Art of Teaching. Professor Hanus's efforts were directed toward the bettering of educational methods. He was the moving factor in the establishing of the Graduate School of Education, but in order to leave himself free for other work declined to become dean of it. For many years he held the office of secretary of the Harvard Teachers' Association, and was responsible for initiating its policies...
...latter game was, however, on the Bulldog's home floor, an advantage which has proven again and again in the last decade to be the crucial factor, and has served as Harvard's special nemesis. Yale's home court is comparatively large for the East, and it often takes a visiting team several minutes to become accustomed to it. The Blue's defeat earlier this week was Yale's first setback of the season on its own floor...