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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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goodly proportion of advanced work is necessary if college training is to go beyond the secondary school stage of mental gymnastics. But where the demands of mechanical and rote memory work hang heavy over an advanced field the activity there is crippled. Only when men are freed from this threat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MATURE MIND | 4/2/1929 | See Source »

Harvard would be perhaps the least favorable environment for such an attempt. Where a student body is unanimous in its approvals and disapproval's, a newspaper constantly opposing it deserves no consideration as a representative of undergraduate ideas; but in the fifty-one forty-nine division characteristic of the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FORUM | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Aside from the obvious meaning of the last statement, there is a very definite reason for the prevalence of Harvard men in the Investment field. Bond selling requires certain very definite characteristics in the way of background, education, and training, most of which most Harvard men may be assumed to...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Once he begins to reach the point where his earning capacity is large, his income is in direct proportion to his ability to sell and to reach those who have the funds. His rewards then may become extremely large, but to a great extent they are the rewards of years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Business World | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

Earnings. In connection with the offering to the public of the former British stock the figures on production and earnings in recent years showed that from 1924 to 1927 with production ranging from 175,000,000 to 207,000,000 Ibs. of copper a year its earnings ranged from $2...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Ansonia | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

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