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Word: proportionately (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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For this sort of defense, any Hitler youth, any old garrison service corpsman, any dummkopf may be able to stand in a concrete pillbox and press a trigger, till he is killed. But to make the West Wall effective, 30 to 45 divisions are needed, and a good proportion of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: West: A Smart War | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

Japanese universities, reported the Chinese educator, now teach only physics, medicine, engineering, agriculture. The students are almost the only able-bodied young male civilians to be seen in the cities where the proportion of young men to young women is now about one to 40. The students must wear a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: All the Sad Young Men | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

The U.S. will come nearer attaining full employment after the war if "a smaller proportion of Americans are engaged in manufacturing . . . and a larger proportion are engaged in the service industries." This advice was offered postwar planners by Author C. (for Clinton) Hartley Grattan in an article entitled "Factories Can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EMPLOYMENT: A Nation of Shopkeepers? | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

One ramp seized near Rouen was simply a pair of rails 200 feet long and mounted 12 feet apart on ties. The mayor of Rouen said that a high proportion of the robombs launched in that area had been wasted, that three out of four flopped in France without even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: March on the Robots | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

The semi-pro National Guard had contributed 76 generals, and perhaps they were the cases to point the way to wider leadership by citizen soldiers in the postwar Army. In World War II the top jobs had apparently been parceled out in fairly direct proportion to training in the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND: The Pros | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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