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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The problem, then, is not a matter of amending the law, which is necessary, but rather of making the punishment fit the crime. Probation in general is naturally intended as a warning, a preventive for the man who is threatened with the malady of collegiate dropsy. But in this case...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE OBJECT ALL SUBLIME" | 4/23/1923 | See Source »

While this is going on with respect to northern European immigration, southern Europe has already filled its quotas. But this does not mean at all that southern Europeans are being added to the population in proportion to their quotas. The reverse is the fact because of a greater number leaving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Quotas Closed | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

The greatest amount of discussion was aroused in the controversy over compulsory attendance at Sunday Chapel. In addition to the declaration that forced presence at Chapel was a prostitution of a religious service, its main purpose being to compel students to remain in New Haven a large proportion of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENT UNREST AT YALE TAKES FORM OF PROTEST AGAINST COMPULSORY CHAPEL AND RESTRICTED CUTS | 4/11/1923 | See Source »

Violence - Nerves -Diplomatic Smoke Screens - Hints of Peace France. Premier Poincairé reiterated his statement that French troops will be withdrawn in proportion to the payments received from Germany. He also confirmed the Government's firm intention to examine in a spirit of equity any serious proposals addressed to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Ruhr: Apr. 7, 1923 | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

During recent years, there has been a steady increase in the number of men concentrating in the Classics. Among the nineteen possible fields of concentration, Classics now stands twelfth in the actual number of students. At present forty-one men in the upper three classes are concentrating in this subject...

Author: By Professor E. K. rand, | Title: CLASSICS BASIS OF MODERN LITERATURE | 4/7/1923 | See Source »

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