Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What is needed at the moment is a new sense of balance and proportion. To represent these two important phases of college life in an unreal antagonism was the work of the thoughtless person who mailed the cards and has successfully hidden behind his anonymity.
"Colleges depend upon Industry now, to be sure, and are coming more and more so to depend. It is because so many kodaks are sold that the College enlarges its philosophy department, and pays the astronomy professor a living wage. It is because the cigarette business, the pig iron and...
With such particles "world gas" is, of course, highly elastic-about 689 billion times as elastic as air, Capt. See figured, in proportion to its density. And this elasticity, which accounts physically for the speed with which light traverses space, coupled with another property, is what (according to See) accounts...
The "motor game" is much less seasonal than formerly, owing to the higher proportion of closed cars now manufactured. This is one reason why this fall production-records of the leading makers are holding up so well.
No longer may a Harvard man be accused of indifference--he is most likely unusually fond of children, and his fondness has doubtlessly been inspired by observing the Cambridge Police. Boston society has, of course, contributed to make the Harvard man a drunkard--a position which requires judgment and no...