Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have crept in, and men of fame as well as fortune have been appointed with the hope that they might feel like paying for the honor accorded them. This confusion of the ends with the means has led to the virtual death of the Visiting Committee as a factor in molding Harvard instruction...
Military observers were ready last week to declare that, even if the Japanese now cross the Yellow River barrier and press on to Sian, their next objective, the magnificent month-long resistance by the ill-equipped Chinese armies ranks as a high-spot of the entire war. Chief factor in their success has been the employment of a new strategy-instead of retreating en masse before a Japanese front attack, the Chinese now split up into large-sized guerilla contingents, harass the Japanese at widely scattered points along the front. The Japanese have been forced to fan out their estimated...
...secondary factor of the Chinese resistance has been the weather. Heavy snowfalls, then freezing weather, mucked down Japanese tanks, motor transports in the loose soil of Shansi Province. Last week the Japanese were still sending brave bands across the river in rubber pontoon boats, frail craft menaced by floating chunks of ice,Chinese sniper bullets, whirling, angry waters...
...major factor is the date at which each of these seven powers began arming at top speed, since obviously those which are catching up now must spend even more frantically than those which have been in the race from the start. † On April 1, 1937 the British national deficit...
...much as $100 per day with Johnny Weissmuller in Tarzan pictures, with Crooner Crosby in Doctor Rhythm. In his last film. Her Jungle Love, with Dorothy Lamour, his hind parts proved too brilliant hued for Technicolor. The studio tried tights, but Jiggs tore them off. Finally Cosmetician Max Factor succeeded in toning down the offending spots...