Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Miss Jones's device, about 18 in. long, outwardly resembles an ordinary Ford automobile muffler. Inside is a series of small "pinwheels" which retard the speed of the exhaust gases-"chewing up" the sound waves without creating excessive back pressure upon the engine. (The latter factor, involving loss of power, has been the principal drawback to most attempts at muffling.) The pilot who tested the Jones muffler in flight said the engine lost none of its normal speed-1,900 r.p.m...
...undergraduate journalism at its best. We have no doubt that the Crimson gang is enjoying itself, that it is tickled to death with the results of its outburst, and that it is still sure that it was right in the first place. And the attendant publicity is an important factor as well...
...Enraged the professorial and student class, distinctly a factor in Rumanian politics, by announcing, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, that from Jan. 1, 1931 the pay of all officers will be increased 5,000 lei per month ($30)?subject to Parliamentary approval which His Majesty seemed cocksure of obtaining last week...
...alone this factor that makes an early date for the Authors desirable. It is rather the effect which such a date would have upon the character of the examinations. When the tests were introduced their purpose was to make sure a gentleman's acquaintance with the Classics. They were to check up on outside work, to establish the fact that a certain amount of self education was actually taking place...
...point Mr. Wayne was called upon to declaim: "You folks are making history and history won't stop." It is doubtful if our forefathers were conscious of this factor in their travels. It is a little too obvious that these picture makers were. But this did not prevent the opening audience from applauding vigorously the theme, the scenery, the beasts...