Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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¶ Over 100 had been hit by flying glass. Some had as many as 100 pieces of glass in them-"a problem which has not yet acquired a satisfactory solution." The glass did not usually penetrate very deep, but many cuts contained dirt as well as glass, and removing every...
"After all," Lyons explains, "it is merely a recognition of women as people, and newspaper women as newspaper people." Calling attention to the fact that the newspaper business has a larger proportion of women than most other fields, Lyons believes that the new ruling will "clear up a situation that...
About 40% of U.S. counties lack full-time public-health service, about the same proportion have no registered hospital. Many registered hospitals are not up to snuff.*
Radical Proposal. This also was a conservative document, by comparison with that of white-thatched, vigorous, 65-year-old Economist Sir William Beveridge, author of Britain's "cradle-to-grave" social-security plan. The white paper's policy, he wrote, "is not practical and it is not radical...
Men are growing taller. The average height of men aged 20 to 29, examined at military induction centers in May 1943, was 68.15 inches, two-thirds of an inch more than the height of the same age group among the first million mobilized for war in 1917. The proportion of...