Word: factors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Webster Thayer, who presided over the famous murder trial, was attacked by Schlesinger for having refused a retrial for the men when new evidence appeared. "Thayer's court-room innuendoes," he also claimed, "were the chief factor in persuading the jury to condemn...
...only cementing factor," says Opposition Leader Dr. N. M. Perera, a handsome, sleepy-eyed Trotskyite,* "is the mutual dread of an election." By gently shifting his influence, Banda alternately encourages and hampers Gunawardena in his proposals for land reform and rural cooperatives; little has been done to fulfill election promises of nationalizing tea and rubber plantations, or of turning Ceylon into a model Socialist country...
...Discovery of the microbe that causes a disease is not necessarily the most important factor in halting its ravages. Dr. John Snow checked a cholera outbreak in London in 1854 merely by having the handle removed from the Broad Street pump that was gushing contaminated water. Then the cholera vibrio was found, but volunteers have guzzled billions of them without getting sick-and now the disease, if it develops, can be treated simply by replacing body fluids, without serums or antimicrobial drugs...
Moreover, Romney has a more subtle factor working in his favor. The success of his long crusade has made him a symbolic figure-a sort of Johnny Appleseed of the auto industry. He is besieged by pleas for help, love letters, poetry, suggestions that he run for Governor of Michigan or President of the U.S. Wrote a Los Angeles admirer: "With you as President, America would once again become a great power...
Detroit had always brushed off demands for a lower-priced small car with the remark that motorists could buy a good secondhand big car for about the same price. But the purchase price proved not the chief factor. The secondhand car usually burned more gas and oil, needed more repairs, was less economical than the foreign...