Word: factor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tories were counting on prosperity and genial Harold Macmillan's undeniable personal popularity to help them "turn the hat trick," i.e., win an unprecedented third straight general election victory. But in the marginal constituencies, where national personalities and national issues were not likely to prove the deciding factor, Labor seemed to be staging something of a comeback...
More than any other factor, the problem of cost lies behind the efforts of the state college to expand. By means of this low cost, a public college can attract able students whose parents simply cannot afford a private education. Despite the preaching of Seymour Harris, it is doubtful whether 20year payment plans, interest-free loans, or other similar proposals will enable all persons to enter private schools. State colleges must expand to fill the gap. President Mather's latest report well illustrates this belief...
Immigration to this country when very young appears also to be a factor among boys who are repeatedly in trouble, the Gluecks discovered...
According to the students themselves, the most decisive factor in the change has been their "lectures and assigned reading in courses"--reinforced by the "influence of friends" (who are, of course, reading many of the same books) and "increased thinking about political questions" (stimulated largely by course work and, to some extent, by increased "independent" reading...
...Protestant Christianity seems to have had built into it, from the first, a relentless central drive toward absolute sincerity in the acceptance of literal truth--a condition that has evidently proved self-undermining so far as the faith of a large number of Harvard undergraduates is concerned. And the factor that stands in second place as cause of the atheist heresy is similarly an objection against the theology of the faith, grounded on the ethics of that same faith: Ivan Karamazov's outrage at "the existence of undeserved pain and suffering in the world" prevails as a powerful force among...