Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full of blind spots, times when the race seemed to be swallowed up like Jonah from the face of the earth--nevertheless this chronicle, this story, has had as much to do with shaping the course of world affairs for the last nineteen hundred years as any other single factor. And not only did the Jewish religion give birth to the Christian, but its contributions in its own right are a vital force in modern society...
...solution. . . . Any study of our markets over the past twenty-five years will reveal that there has always been present a tendency upon the part of the professional trader to accentuate a declining market by selling short for speculative profit at a time when public distress adds a factor of demoralization...
Reminded that the chief objection to a closed shop was that for the working majority it gave a monopolistic privilege, Watt answered that the minority must be a factor in an agreement also...
...reason of its star, Clint Frank, and a season without defeat, Yale was top-heavy favorite to whip Harvard, which had been beaten by Dartmouth and Army. The equalizing factor was that Harvard had beaten Princeton, and the only thing Harvard would rather do than beat Yale or Princeton is beat them both. It had not done so since 1915. Harvard drew first blood in the second quarter when Ray Daughters caught a forward pass and shook off two Yale tacklers, scored. In the next quarter Yale got moving, and the great Frank bounced off the Yale line...
Harvard is bucking the tide again. The university renowned for its indifference now refuses to be indifferent in the one matter where indifference seems to be the keynote of the collegiate day. This is as it should be. Religion is still a moving factor in human life, although in some parts its struggle is increasingly difficult. The Harvard stand of non-indifference is a fine tribute to the men who have nurtured religion here, and it serves notice that some young men in a university proud of setting unusual styles still refuse to relinquish their high ideals...