Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...with our purely amateur outlook and our love of the game for the game's sake. But we seldom realize that football pays for practically all other sports and that one big game before a large audience would do more towards assisting "athletics for all" than any other single factor...
...influenza epidemic last winter; 2) to the smaller purchasing power of drugstore customers affected by current unemployment and business depression. This second cause is a shock to both manufacturing druggists and retailers. They had held the idea that the need for drugstore medicines was a constantly rising factor in society, independent of business conditions. The apparent reason for no falling-off last week of the eight drug corporations' stocks was that malaise accumulated during the spring would drive discontents into drugstores during the summer and autumn and that by winter seasonal colds and other maladies would make more customers...
...political prophets concede Mr. Phillips a chance of nomination. Yet he is a prime primary factor because he may draw from Mr. Brown, the regular candidate, enough votes to give Mr. Pinchot the nomination. The great Pennsylvania question: will Wet voters put party above Prohibition? In the House Pennsylvania's scholarly and aristocratic Congressman, James Montgomery Beck, is a most eloquent Wet. In politics he is a part of Boss Vare's Philadelphia machine. Lately he appealed to voters to support Mr. Brown, who had weasled on Prohibition, rather than Mr. Phillips who stood with him on this issue...
...encounter with the school team. The first match of the season was against the seconds, and was won by the 1933 group, 5 to 3. In this match, the teams split even in the singles, but the Freshman team's superiority in the doubles was the deciding factor. Monday afternoon the first year group easily defeated the M. I. T. freshmen...
...third major factor has to do with the college. The tendency has been to submit the Freshman class to the futile efforts of the poorest instructors in the college faculty. An effort is being made to relieve this situation and the proposal is to improve the quality of the instruction and at the same time draw the Freshman advisers from those teachers with whom the students have immediate contact. Such a change would be highly advisable in view of the present system by which a student coming from a good preparatory school is submitted to men of distinctly inferior ability...