Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking refuge in Dublin in 1571, Campion wrote a distinguished little history of Ireland. Waugh the stylist quotes with delight several sweet and thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided...
Had it not been drowned by the tumult of Washington's inflation wrangles, the voice of Federal Reserve Board Chairman Marriner S. Eccles might often have been heard quietly protesting the "monetization of the public debt." He did not like the way a large proportion of Treasury borrowing had...
"Evasive Action." This week, Lord Halifax made a farewell speech before the Pilgrims society in Manhattan. Said he: "I felt I could not pretend to any knowledge of this vast and varied country unless I had seen as much of all of it as was compatible with the claims of...
The John Reed Society entered the political publication field briefly in '43, but the magazine, announced as a quarterly, appeared only once. With its revival last term the Society attracted better than a hundred people--a proportion of which come mostly out of curiosity, according to an official of the...
No Defense. None of the contributors to One World or None believes that there can be an effective defense against airborne or rocket-borne atomic bombs. In a blackly pessimistic chapter, Physicist Louis N. Ridenour, radar expert, explains how even the most elaborate precautions cannot keep a good proportion of...