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Word: proportionate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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"The wisdom of increasing even slightly the proportion of junior teachers in a university where it is already the practice to futurst a great deal of the undergraduate instruction to the less experienced teachers is open to serious question on educational grounds." Stone says.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Critics of University's Administration Advise Increase in Faculty Democracy | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

True deafness can be caused only by injury to the inner ear, or to the auditory nerve. Inherited structural defects account for a large proportion of these cases; syphilis, scarlet fever, meningitis, measles, for many others. Skull fractures and the force of violent explosions may injure the cochlea or the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How's That? | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

The battle began at Chrysler Corp.'s Dodge plant in Hamtramck, a Detroit suburb noted for its putrescent politics and its high proportion (90%) of Polish-Americans. As 1940 Dodges took shape on the assembly lines, company inspectors time & again had to halt the production flow to check up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Moonshine & Camouflage | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Nerves strung fiddle-tight, emotions running skin-deep, the U. S. watched its 76th Congress open a Great Debate last week. A thousand curious citizens pulled wires to wangle passes to cram into the Senate's gallery of 450 seats. Eighty-three Senators out of 96-a portentous proportion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGRESS: Question Marks | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Pain and Tumors. About half of the Institute's 3,200 annual patients require operations for brain or spinal-cord tumors. A great proportion of these operations are performed by strong, sociable Dr. Byron Stookey in the green-tiled operating room domed with a glass observers' balcony. Sleepy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bread-&-Butter Brains | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

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