Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The immediate issue concerning the library will be solved equitably according to the plan of the institutions. The Radcliffe library will have every book that Lamont has, in the proper proportion of course, and that, it is hoped, by the beginning of next term. The ordinary needs of the undergraduates...
Since the election of Presidents is the privilege of the states, it seemed unlikely that the system of electoral votes would ever be abolished. But a constitutional amendment proposed by Massachusetts' Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Texas' Congressman Ed Gossett would eliminate block voting. Under its terms...
There is no easy or quick solution to the housing problem. Though long overdue, any program must be long range and well organized. All public measures must aim primarily at stimulating the private builder, for only he can supply the largest proportion of needed homes. Federal aid should provide for...
But despite this editorial caution, the new Bartlett is full of inconsistencies and badly lacking in proportion. Some of the major poets and novelists seem to be there merely for the record, their best known lines omitted. It is human enough to give Churchill top rating among the new entries...
She tells the story of an American family living in Italy. David Meredith is a writer whose books sparkle but lack proportion; his children, left to grow wild like unclipped weeds, are something like his books. There is Frances, an intense, mixed-up young girl; Louis, who flirts with Fascism...