Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"The architect's concept," Weld declared, "is unfortunately completely out of proportion to any suggestions the Council ever made and to any actual need. It is too bad that the Council members responsible for the report on which the architects based their plans and their subsequent estimates were never con...
With a casualty list of thirty-five serious injuries so far this season, House teams have a proportionately greater rate of dismemberment than the more carefully tutored Varsity. Broken ankles, mashed noses, and collar bones twisted into the shape of a pretzel turn the intramural league into a sporty abattoir. While a certain number of injuries must be expected in any sport emphasizing body contact, the large number and character of the injuries incurred by House football players seems entirely out of proportion with the type of game played in the College...
Rape & Non-Fiction. In his younger days, Huntington ranged all over the world-to the Near East, Latin America, Chinese Turkestan-always compounding generalizations to explain why human beings, provoked by weather and geography, behave as they do. He kept an eye open for such relevant material as the relation...
While noting that the sheet is "not designed to serve as a notice of club meetings," Charles Lipton '48, PBH president, called on all College organizations to supply information on "events that will be of interest to a sizable proportion of University students."
Cambridge industrialist Charles Luckman has gone to Washington: he is straining to win national support for President Truman's Citizens Food Committee. The stakes are the lives of distressed millions in Europe and the relief of threatening inflationary pressures at home. Yet colossal as the need looms, the University community...