Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even with full attendance at all concerts, a symphony orchestra in any city of the U. S. would play at a large deficit. Such deficits are increasing. It is true that in recent years attendance at concerts has been greater than formerly, but costs of production have increased in far...
History demonstrates one fact at least, that in every age a goodly proportion of folk praised the great men of the past but found little of comfort in their to-day and entertained grave forebodings of their to-morrow. In this respect History never fails to repeat itself. Marco Polo...
Flying over Dayton, 0., the Barling Bomber carried 19 bombs having a total weight of 6,692 pounds-a world's record. The giant airplane is the largest in the world, and weighs nearly 20 tons when fully loaded. But Barling claims he can build a plane four times...
In proportion to its importance since 1919, the Peace Conference spent relatively little time on the question of Reparations. France wanted security but was forced to accept the League and an Anglo-American Treaty in lien of the left bank of the Rhine. Then she was deserted, as she felt...
"The separatist party contains but a very small proportion of the population. But at the instigation of the French government, it has been made to appear a vast popular movement. The party leader, Dorten, is in French pay. The party organizers are also subsidized. The French allow the scattered separatists...