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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Parity in destroyers is to be struck at around 150,000 tons for each Great Power, and parity in submarines at roughly 88,000 tons. In the more ticklish category of cruisers the U. S. is asking 315,000 tons and Britain 339,000 but this too is supposed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Peace & Disarmament | 9/30/1929 | See Source »

Frankly, however, the last two seasons have not been such as to satisfy the large majority of Harvard men. The reasons for this are too tangled to be dismissed with a mere charge of incompetence against the coach although this is undeniably the most obvious feature of the situation. Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CREW | 9/25/1929 | See Source »

As reader, I vote unequivocally for limitation. As advertiser, I vote for visibility, but visibility is only the first step. I have experienced the power of space in TIME, and I believe the potency of that space dependent upon proportion and selection as psychological factors. Visibility is but the physical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Limitation Policy | 9/23/1929 | See Source »

"If you are unwilling to discharge your sworn obligations to the Federal Government or wish to make a confession of your inability to effectively direct the activities of your department, for which a large proportion of a $36,000.000 appropriation is allotted, the admission should be made primarily to your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Buck-Passing | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Advertisements. Mr. Parkes obtained few advertisements for his Gazette. They were mostly for sales of plantations, "for money or tobacco, very cheap . . . containing 200 acres of good Land, with a good bearing young Orchard, of Variety of Good Fruit Trees. ..." Printer William Rind, a later owner, fared better. Sometimes he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In San Francisco | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

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