constitutes

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In 1904 a Boston firm, in conjunction with a woman’s magazine, ran a competition in which people were asked to answer the question “What Constitutes Success?” in 100 words or less.

From Forbes • Sep. 1, 2014

The gates were opened, and in swept a breathless and perspiring crowd to hear the two duelists fight over "What Constitutes Revolutionary Art?"

From Time Magazine Archive

Constitutes Chapter XVI. of the Report of the United States Commissioner of Education for the year 1901.

From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Woodson, Carter Godwin

He watched the editor's face as the meaning of his words dawned on it, and added: "Miss Briggs has a copy, morocco binding, including among ten thousand and one subjects 'What Constitutes Libel.'"

From Kilo : being the love story of Eliph' Hewlitt, book agent by Butler, Ellis Parker

But, alas, not saving alone, for enjoyment hereafter, Constitutes happiness, no, not heaps of gold or of silver, Neither field upon field, however compact the estate be.

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred