Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impossible that these enterprises at Cambridge were in part inspired by the situation which is causing Harvard to make a thorough survey of unemployment among college graduates. But the primary factor, both at M.I.T. and at Harvard, is undoubtedly the conviction that government work is to be increasingly important in the future and that our colleges and technical schools should give intelligent preparation...
...Pullman Company, whose headforemost practice frankly originated with considerations of ventilation, contemplates a canvass of passenger preference in air-conditioned sleepers in which the ventilation factor does not prevail...
Aware of the cinders-&-soot nuisance in early sleeping cars, Professor Laird considered that factor removed by modern fine-mesh screens in Pullman windows- an assumption which many a traveler would dispute...
Least important factor in the West formula are the stories she writes herself, showing her surrounded by ineffectual admirers. In Goin' to Town, she has seven of these. A cattle-town belle who inherits a fortune in Buenos Aires, she makes herself a social success in Southampton, L. I. by giving a ball at which she sings a duet from Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah, climaxes her career by marrying a British earl (Paul Cavanagh...
...national history will go without question. So must is this fact recognized today that Professor Donald Laird of Colgate University is making a special research on noses. Undoubtedly many treasures are in store for him. To date his study reveals that not only is the nose a very determining factor in forming the character of the face, but that certain suffers are so sensitive in their make-up that they can distinguish races, families, even houses by scent alone. This might be assumed by the ability of boodhounds to trace out individuals; but Dr. Laird hastens to drive home...