Word: per
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There is a desperate shortage of nurses. According to current standards (one public health nurse per 2,000 population), there should be 2,206 nurses in Cook County. There are only...
...commission defines it, has a minimum of 1,200 pupils, a maximum of 10.000. Each school in the district should have at least 300 students, who travel not more than 45 minutes or an hour to get there.* In elementary schools there should be at least one teacher per grade; in high schools, at least twelve teachers in all (some of them specialists: music, art, etc.). The commission would call no district satisfactory unless 90% of the students stuck until high-school graduation ("Farm boys & girls get from two to four years' less schooling than their city cousins...
...different denominations keep their records in different ways, and few churches agree on just who should be counted a church member. Listing only those 13 years or older, the overall muni ber of church members (Protestant, Catholic and Jewish) dropped in the decade between 1930 and 1940 from 534 per 1,000 of population...
Ministers. In 1900, the U.S. had 137 clergymen per 100,000 citizens. Today the ratio has fallen to approximately 104. Ministers' salaries average less than $2,000 (much less in rural areas), for which the average congregation gets two Sunday sermons, an adult Sunday-school class, personal consultation, active leadership in civic organizations and youth groups...
Carnegie Hall (Morros-LeBaron; United Artists) probably contains more famous music per foot of film, interpreted by more famous musicians, than any other movie ever made. The chances are that it will gross millions. This does not mean, necessarily, that music lovers will love it. Nearly every number is the most over-familiar one that could have been chosen...