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Word: proportionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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National Origins. This was not a scientific way to filter aliens into the U. S if the original native stock of the country was to be preserved. The 1924 law therefore carried a provision for the establishment of quotas based on National Origins Scientists were to determine the racial composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: National Origins | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

"I am personally interested in flying." said he, speaking proudly in recently acquired English. "After I have completed my work and become an old man, I hope to visit America. I may then be able to fly across the Atlantic. Twenty years from now a good-proportion of trans-Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Old Age | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

This investigation was made between Feb. 28 and June 30, 1919, pursuant to instructions from the Secretary of War which required an estimate of the value of the work of the Y. M. C. A. and the proportion of the welfare work which was accomplished by the Y. M. C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 25, 1929 | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

"Because the women of Northern Italy are more robust and the men more intelligent than those of the South, II Duce, for racial reasons, expects them to give a big proportion of the additional babies he asks for his campaign.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Begetters Grumbling | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

"A large proportion of the others are socially adrift. There is no intention that the new 'Houses' should be hostile to these clubs, but it is evident that the contacts which a club supplies are far too limited for a widening effect upon the members, and it is equally evident...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Coolidge Explains House Plan to Graduates in Speech In St. Louis---Emphasizes Social Benefits to be Derived | 2/21/1929 | See Source »

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