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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Every so often, newspaperdom becomes agitated over Free Publicity, which is the game between producers and publishers. When the two sides are evenly matched, producers get themselves or their products or services mentioned in public print, without charge, in exact proportion to their news value. Determining that value is, of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Publicity Feud | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

U. S. failure to achieve such a union was partly ascribed by Methodist Frank A. Horne to economic inefficiency. Said he: "Waste in church administration and unproductive expenditure constitutes a collective sin of the churches. The losses due to inefficiency are shown by the surplus of Protestant church edifices, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: At Buck Hill Falls | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

Dr. Rentschler constructed a photo-electric cell with one pole made of uranium. Uranium is sensitive only to the ultraviolet rays of the spectrum. They charge it electrically. Hence when the Rentschler uranium bulb is exposed to an ultraviolet ray source an electric charge is created in proportion to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ray Meter | 6/24/1929 | See Source »

It is very easy to spot a good "assistant," and also a poor one. In the first place, the good assistant knows his subject and can present it to his students in an intelligent way. In the second place, his attitude to his students is friendly. The poor "assistant" very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ASSISTANTS CLASSIFIED | 6/20/1929 | See Source »

The large proportion of Freshmen in these courses and the wide range of subject matter covered by them make comparatively frequent check-ups in the form of tests advisable. But this fact does not answer the question as to how heavily these periodic tests should count toward the final grade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDGING THE FINISHED PRODUCT | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

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