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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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. . . Professor Hall's letter apparently led some of the Boston newspapers to say that a large proportion of the Harvard Faculty, the undergraduates, and the alumni were hostile to the "house plan." Now, the Bulletin is in a position where it can form a reasonably sound judgment about the opinions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Water's Fine" | 3/23/1929 | See Source »

For the type of publication made possible by these awards is just as vital to Harvard, the college of Liberal Arts, as the aeronautical experiments carried on further down the river by means of the Guggenheim Foundation. Indeed, the resemblance is far deeper than this mere similarity of proportion, since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWICE BLESSED | 3/19/1929 | See Source »

The cost of the portion of the improvements to be built in the next four years is estimated to be about $4,250,000. Of this sum Mrs. J. J. Storrow's gift will pay $1,000,000, the state highway fund $850,000., Boston $150,000., as its share...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Killam Discusses Proposals to Alter Charles River and Basin | 3/14/1929 | See Source »

Although the limit of students in the first-year class of the Graduate School of Business Administration has been raised to 600, an increase of 100 over last year, more applications, in proportion to the increase, have been received this winter than in any previous year, it was announced yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 3/12/1929 | See Source »

Fewer air accidents, in proportion to the number of planes flown, are happening. Last week the Department of Commerce, kindly Cerberus of U.S. aviation, issued its periodic statistics:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Fewer Accidents | 3/11/1929 | See Source »

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