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Word: proportionably (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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We had a requisition the other day for a barrel of soap and a gross of safety razor blades. It seemed out of proportion, but "ours not to reason why."

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISCELLANY OF ITEMS PASS THROUGH PURCHASING AGENTS OF UNIVERSITY | 5/27/1927 | See Source »

A dinner marking the end of a most successful year was held last night by the Harvard Students Laundry at the Hotel Lenox. Speeches by the President, the Secretary, and the Treasurer emphasized the purpose of the organization namely to extend the opportunities for financial aid and business experience to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Student Laundry Ends Successful Year | 5/26/1927 | See Source »

It is all very well to demand stories of college life from college authors. The bitter truth, however, is that such efforts mean little or nothing either as fiction or fact. There is a thing known as a sense of proportion and it is not entirely out of place in...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLASTIC SAGE | 5/21/1927 | See Source »

President Lowell and the administration are justified in putting the question directly before the undergraduates and waiting for an answer. They do not intend to start merely another eating place which will not fulfill an absolute need. As yet no attempt has been made to discover the sentiment of upperclassmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS | 5/18/1927 | See Source »

Believing in proportion in all things, he has discovered under the protecting wing of Symphony Hall, a tiny store whose dimensions are decidedly unfriendly to fat men, whom nobody loves, but which are made just right for Otto. Into this nook Otto is planning to move bag and baggage, books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Otto Grow Faces Problems of Man of Books in New Lending Library--Tiny Nook on Huntington Ave. Houses Tiny Shop | 5/17/1927 | See Source »

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