Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shades of political thought refused to commit themselves, Bilbo, the coorageous champion of right, truth, honesty and morality, fought the battle of his life to keep Mississippi dry, and I challenge the world to disprove the fact, that it was due more to his efforts than to any other factor, that the victory was won, and Mississippi was kept dry. & Saved from this debauchery...
...commonplace of Europe?vast sums of timid money skittering out of a country at the first rumor of devaluation or rebellion. By last week the flight of capital from sunny California and the EPIC plans of its Democratic nominee for Governor had become a major market factor...
...could interfere if she would. All Herald Tribune editorial men are far more acutely conscious of Mrs. Reid, although they may not see her for a full month, than they are of bald, likable, easy-going Ogden Mills Reid whose office is on their own floor. A contributing factor is that Mrs. Reid is sternly Dry, which most Herald Tribune men, including her husband, are not. Even the rumor that white-crowned Jack Bleeck, who has run the Herald Tribune's next-door bar for years, considered opening his door to women, gave the whole staff a mild case...
...woodpile, says Author Adams, first appeared in August 1619. The woodpile was a Dutch man-o'-war, which unloaded "twenty Negars" at the struggling English colony of Jamestown, Va. But Adams knows too much about history to singularize plural causes. Slavery, says he, was only a contributing factor in the widening divergences between North and South. Even in 1700 the antagonism between Massachusetts and South Carolina, "the two protagonists in our tragedy," was already latent. For the "rope of sand" that held the 13 colonies together was substituted a Constitutional chain of iron, which had to be tempered...
...which is distributed over the four years of undergraduate study, $850 the first year, and $600 for each succeeding year. Selection for the award is based on literary and scholastic ability, character and moral leadership, and physical soundness and vigor. According to the University release, the most important factor in the selection is the "Individual's promise of future service to scholarship and to public service...