Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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No matter what sports writers say, there is no actual Ivy League. But the figment took a half-step toward fact last week. The presidents of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale signed an expanded version of an old Harvard-Princeton-Yale agreement-no "athletic scholarships," no...
One C-54 with 80 Chinese passengers and a crew of four Americans crashed near Hangchow, killing all the occupants - the greatest loss of life in any U.S. plane any where. A C46 struck a radio tower at Peiping and crashed. There were other casualties when superstitious Chinese walked across...
"A major difficulty that confronts both tutors and students at present is that a vaguely defined tutorial objective is in competition with graded courses. Naturally, the student will devote whatever proportion of his effort he thinks necessary to getting the highest possible marks before he concerns himself with tutorial. Yet...
Once that has been played, however, there must be a certain semblance of balance. A given proportion of the remaining time should be devoted to works of classical importance. That which is left must be divided among the Romantics and the impressionists--carefully. The Romantic school stretches from middle Beethoven...
¶ Jet engines producing about twice as much power in proportion to their weight as gasoline engines.