Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Campaign "dope" flows freely from the mouths of politicians. Most of it is too unreliable to serve as a basis for a considered judgment. All of it must be discounted in inverse proportion to the political opinions of the person who gives it, both on account of intentional and unintentional...
Not so many months ago, some of these companies were very much undercapitalized. Atlantic Refining was a conspicuous example. Surplus was out of all proportion to capital on the balance sheet. Also, political liberals in Washington, about that time, began to demand a tax on corporate surpluses. To avoid such...
"A Berlin policeman gets 110 marks a month?about $25. He pays from 16 to 24 marks ($3.50 to $4.50) for the cheapest cotton shirt? 98 cents in any American department store, and other things in proportion. You can imagine how they live! And they are typical.
The diver on the sea bottom, 50 ft. down, described what he saw. As anybody knows who has been there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for...
So large a proportion of the world's supply of coffee is raised in the Brazilian states of San Paulo and Santos that the recent revolution in that section has had an important effect on the world coffee market. Spot coffee in New York rose in July to 17.15...