Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The preponderance of answers indicated the following results since Prohibition: 1) better furnished homes; 2) a larger proportion of husband's income spent on families; 3) marital relations improved; 4) more sanitary homes; 5) "mental health" better in homes; 6) less children's delinquency; 7) fewer cases of malnutrition among...
If we had as many men employed on the soil in Great Britain, in proportion to the size of the two countries, as they have in Denmark, there would now be 750,000 more workers on the British land than are engaged at this hour. If you take Germany as...
President Little of the University of Michigan is reported by the Associated Press to have said that 85 per cent of college undergraduates do not go to college to study. He proposes to reduce this proportion by making the entrance requirements more difficult.
Mr. Manly has now taken alarm at the mergers of bread companies, and declares that a "bread trust" is now forming whose power is a national menace. Mr. Manly further states that profits in milling and breadmaking, being out of proportion to the increased price of wheat, are now "unconscionable...
In 1913 the Interstate Commerce commission began the mighty task of placing a physical reduction on United States railways. Most of the expense involved was foisted upon the roads themselves, although a minor proportion of it was met with Government funds. Down to the end of 1924, the Class I...