Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the glide path and came in high and too far down the runway. "Aquaplaning" - a phenomenon in which a thin film of water can delay the point at which a plane's wheels touch the concrete of the run way - is suspected to have been a contributing factor in last week's triple overshot...
...price of steel is a vital factor in the economy of every industrialized nation, and few nations have kept a closer watch on that price than the U.S. Whenever steelmen even talk about raising prices, a storm rises over official Washington. Congress has investigated almost every steel price rise since Robert Taft led an angry probe into one of the first postwar hikes in 1948, and federal authorities have long grumbled that steel prices seem to have little regard for the law of supply and demand. Last week a federal grand jury made that charge official by indicting the nation...
Rumors of the coming "Save the Sycamores" riot to stop the Metropolitain District Commission from heartlessly bulldozing down the trees along Memorial Drive seemed to have sparked the abortive attempt. An article in The Yardling by some budding Mao Tse-tung on riotstarting tactics was also considered a contributing factor...
There seems to have been a slight increase in the number of acceptances from the far West, the South, and Greater Boston, Doermann noted. The offsetting factor, he added, is probably a small decrease in acceptance from rural Midwestern communities, although studies are definitely needed to substantiate this point...
...scholarly mythology. His achievement can be appreciated, according to Morgan, by other students of the colonial period, but it cannot be measured; his influence was somehow "incommensurate with his genius." His forays into the new field of intellectual history, his insistence that "the mind of man is the basic factor" in human history either alienated or bewildered much of the contemporary academic world, and Miller worked alone. "Men like Charles Beard and Frederick Jackson Turner," Morgan argues...