Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Showing a marked increase over their numbers of former years, foreign students now comprise 12.3 percent of Harvard wartime civilian enrollment. Averages for the years immediately preceding the war show that the College's normal proportion of undergraduates from places outside continental United States hovers about 2.5 percent.
Last week in her own syndicated column, "Elsa Maxwell's Party Line," which is printed not by 20 but by 35 U.S. newspapers, the "World's Greatest Hostess" cracked back: "Speak for yourself, John." Declared she: "In ordinary times, such notice . . . would be flattering. Today it reflects something...
Having climbed higher than the nation in wartime, said the state report, California has farther to fall. A large proportion of its workers are in the well-paid war baby industries, shipbuilding and aircraft. Thus, some 400,000 to 800,000 Californians may be out of work at war'...
At present, 23 of Sydenham's staff of some 300 doctors are Negroes. Famed Negro Surgeon Peter Marshall Murray, an attending physician on the Obstetrical and Gynecological Service, has numerous white patients. Of the twelve interns, two are Negroes. About 60% of the nurses are Negroes, and there are...
He blithely guessed it would take him three years, and when a friend pointed out that 40 French Academicians had labored 40 years to write a French dictionary, Johnson boomed: "Sir, forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three is to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman...