Word: proportionably
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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So when his inquiry becomes saner as the room, perhaps, grows more comfortable, and the wind decreases in proportion to his loss of interest in Nathan esque bitterness--he comes to realize that this disease of college cramp is, after all, not without its purposive helpfulness in his life as...
In the days when U. S. journalism was young and yellow, newspapermen often quarreled violently and in public. One editor would refer to his colleague as "that scurrile cur, that . . . slander-monger Drennelthorpe, of the Courier Gazette . . . whereupon Mr. Drennelthorpe would visit the writer with a bowie knife and a...
In his valedictory leader, the outgoing President of the Lampoon makes his successor beir to an "empty paste pot and a pair of shears," obviously the worn instrumeats with which a large proportion of the wit and humor of the present number was acquired, for, with the possible exception of...
Whether this emphasis is an exaggeration remains a matter of dispute. Previous expressions of opinion by Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, President of the Carnegle Foundation, indicate that his organization regards it as out of proportion. In his annual report issued a year ago in March, he said:
But a larger proportion of them attend and enjoy the moving pictures. They admit the possibility and applaud the actuality of a true interpretation of life therein, whether the subject be Babylon or West Point, whether it is filmed in California or Garden City. Hence a sense of reciprocity would...