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Word: proportionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nevertheless one doubts the absolute permanence of the seal. The glorious afternoon is after all only a memory College spirit takes its bumps periodically; and underneath this periodicity there is clearly a proportion to that scorned symbol of Rotarianism, Success. The appeals of an infuriated group of cheer-leaders waver...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINNER TAKE ALL | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

As was announced in the CRIMSON of November 5 in an article by O. S. Loud '29, first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is this year increasing the number of men elected from each class from 45 to 65. This change restores the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Phi Beta Kappa Records Show 62 Percent of High Honor Men are Elected--28 Percent of Members Receive Cums | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

But the margin of error in such standards as college board marks and secondary school grades becomes increasingly wide as the proportion of applicants for admission accepted by colleges diminishes. The chances that the student who averages seventy percent in his entrance examinations will have greater capacity for college work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADMISSIONS AND DISMISSALS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

Come to think of it that was all it was supposed to be in the first place. Those who have been insisting that the ballyhoo and the hysteria in connection with modern intercollegiate football have destroyed all sense of proportion should applaud the attitude of the Yale undergraduate but before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

The account of stock revealed few changes. The same proportion of the audience mercilessly missed the first act. There was the same tardy cluttering down the aisles, whiffs of expensive perfumes, the swish of wraps, the shooting of cuffs and hats. No Golden Horseshoe boxes had been sold since last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Unison | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

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