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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The man who goes away weekends, has a club, and is forced carefully to budget his board allowance is still in as bad a position as before. The difference of four meals is absurdly out of proportion with the one dollar reduction in price of the new proposal. In other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUTOCRAT OF THE DINING TABLE | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

Since before many years the undergraduate at New Haven may face a similar decision the results of the room applications at Cambridge ought to be viewed with especial interest. Undergraduate opinion there has been consistently hostile to the House Plan, yet the University authorities have gone ahead with no appreciable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 12/7/1929 | See Source »

Chemistry has become a broad field. On the one side physics and mathematics, on the other biology and physiology are embraced in the many ramifications of the science. It is important above all in a field where laboratory work occupies so great a proportion of attention, not to neglect the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL BUT JOHNNY | 11/30/1929 | See Source »

Direction, Procedure, Powers. On these three points the Statute released last week merely confirmed earlier official announcements (TIME, Oct. 28). The Chairman of the Bank will be elected by a Board composed of representatives of the central banks and of Messrs. X and Y. Mere ownership of shares carries no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Signed & Sealed | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

October 23. Why then, did a Market which had broken on Oct. 23 demonstrate with a continued crash on Oct. 24 that the end of the Great Bull Market had really arrived? Professor Fisher may stand a discredited prophet, yet apt appeared his analogy between the break on the market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Market Lesson | 11/18/1929 | See Source »

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