Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I also discovered a second sort, of an oval figure. . . . Comparing them with a cheese mite, which may be seen to move with the naked eye, I make the proportion of one of these small water creatures to a cheese mite to be like that of a bee to a...
Compared with the annual .prewar total of 61 million bbls. of oil from the entire Netherlands East Indies, Tarakan's production was tiny. But in the logistics of the Pacific War the importance of Tarakan's supply is all out of proportion to its size. If the capable...
As germs are brought under control, the proportion of oldsters in the population rises. Thus, the rise in degenerative diseases is not surprising: they are common diseases of old age. But doctors are convinced that, given as much money as has been spent for research in the war against germs...
The Esso incendiary is a 6½ lb., 19 in. length of six-sided pipe filled with gasoline thickened to a sticky, raspberry-pink jelly by the addition of a still-secret powder. This oil-bomb produces almost twice as much heat in proportion to weight as magnesium and spreads...
The new technique had caught the Japs by surprise in the first all-incendiary assault on Tokyo, and LeMay wanted to give them no time to recover. It was near-miraculous that two-thirds of the Tokyo raiders were serviced and in shape to lash at Nagoya within 48 hours...