Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keeping with Colonel Ayres' optimism, the stockmarket last week stirred out of its doldrums and staged a strong, though brief, rally. Other indices, like public spending shown by weekly bank debits, were less cheery. On the other hand, building-most bullish factor in the industrial equation-continued onward & upward. F. W. Dodge Corp. announced that November building contracts awarded in the familiar "37 States east of the Rockies" were up 52% over November 1937, bringing the eleven-month total to $2,807,489,000, highest since...
...itself. In the newly incorporated San Francisco Employers Council, Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham offered his fellows one big union of their own, a master association of employers associations. He thus put San Francisco a long jump ahead of any other U. S. city and injected a new factor into Pacific Coast labor relations...
...ability to read twelve languages was a major factor in winning for Archibald B. Roosevelt Jr. '40, one of the four Rhodes Scholarships given annually in the New England district. Coming from Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., Roosevelt is a consistently brilliant scholar, and the only Harvard man to earn the award for this year...
...clarify the subject to even the slowest student; on the other hand there are those who merely lecture, treating any question as an inexcusable interruption. Of course the mathematical genius can learn under any system, but for the average student the question in class is the most important single factor in making the subject understandable...
...great was early prejudice against the stage that in Philadelphia a hospital refused money raised by a benefit performance; in Newport, R. I., Othello was billed as "A Series of Moral Dialogues" and the playhouse dubbed "A Histrionic Academy." A big factor in making an honest woman of the theatre was George Washington's great love...