Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Our Vines is still another chapter in what seems to be a cinematic back-to-the-grass-roots trend (The Southerner, State Fair). It adds weight to the truism that eloquence about the land and its stewards increases in direct proportion to its removal from studio sets. Yet there are...
The Japs are capable of developing a strong underground opposition to U.S. rule, sullenly nourishing the hope of vengeance. But if they choose to play it the other way, they can be wholly ingratiating. Their behavior in everyday contact - the kind that counts with occupying forces - captivated a high proportion...
Soon 1,000 B-29s carrying as much bomb weight as 3,000 B-17s, would be hitting Japan day after day, and the increased power of their atomic missiles would be astronomically out of proportion to the increase in weight. An observer used to the European pattern of heavy...
Nations would contribute capital to both the Fund and the Bank in proportion to their relative economic importance. Each nation then would have a vote in administration roughly proportionate to its contributions. In the Fund, the U.S. would put up $2.75 billion (31%) of the money, have 28% of the votes. To the Bank the U.S. would contribute 34.8% of the capital, have 31.4% of the votes...
Added Correspondent Woodward : "There is no sure defense against the Kamikaze. More than 90% of them are picked off by the Combat Air Patrol and the ships' gunners. A small proportion go into the water through their own ineptitude. A few . . . have ditched their planes in the water and...