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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Harvard has not much to be proud of in the way of recent contributions to such fields as eugenics, modern psychology or physics, and the consciousness that instruction in these subjects must vary in proportion to the quality of the original investigation going on only increases the biot. If opportunities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING | 5/1/1929 | See Source »

Representatives of every nation of any consequence, including the U. S. and Soviet Russia, met in Geneva last fortnight to take up the work of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission where it was left last year (TIME, April 2, 1928). Chairman was a Dutchman, gruff, able, patient Jonkheer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: Bad Faith! | 4/29/1929 | See Source »

The time would seem ripe for some new gentlemen's agreement which would bring to Harvard and her major competitors an equal share in the disadvantages of a certain proportion of public practice sessions. With all parties starting thus from scratch, no one could pipe up and point to defeats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SINNING IN SECRET | 4/26/1929 | See Source »

Meanwhile, however, Mr. Ford maintains that he lost no money in changing over from Model T to Model A. According to a story widely circulated in financial circles, Ford-maker Ford, after deciding upon his model change invested heavily in General Motors stock. Inasmuch as the General Motors stock increased...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford Loss | 4/22/1929 | See Source »

Finally, whatever the plans of the Trustees to allow scholars to go to other institutions, it is untrue to speak of "two hundred Rhodes Scholars" as if all were Americans. According to the last report, "the number of Scholars regularly in residence for either the whole or some part of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Point Counter Point | 4/17/1929 | See Source »

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