Word: factor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile customs men hung on to $150,000 worth of diamonds set in platinum, taken from Mrs. Rella Factor on May 28. Once a Chicagoan, Mrs. Factor claimed, as the wife of a London stockbroker, to be a British subject...
...game between producers and publishers. When the two sides are evenly matched, producers get themselves or their products or services mentioned in public print, without charge, in exact proportion to their news value. Determining that value is, of course, almost entirely up to the publisher. A potent factor, however, is retaining the producer's goodwill so that he will buy advertising space. Feuds arising out of the Free Publicity game are often as not entirely within the publisher's province, between the advertising and editorial departments of publications. But when publishers as a whole feel they are losing...
...importance what a student can show in the second half of his Senior year and not what he has done as a Sophomore or Freshman, so in the determination of a course grade the student's competence in June rather than in December or February should be the deciding factor...
...Chief factor in the sudden change was information from Washington that the Government would apply $100,000,000 of its revolving fund to help out the wheat market. As wheat closed last week at 98, and as it costs about $1.23 to raise a bushel, it was difficult to see how much lasting good $100,000,000 would do in an 880 million bushel crop. Traders, however, did not pause to work out the economics of the situation. The fact that help was coming was sufficient. Furthermore, the market had been oversold, and prices forced below their natural level were...
Summer School Factor...