Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The recent fuss made by FBI and local agencies in rounding up the polygamists of Short Creek, Ariz, and sundry other points in these parts seems out of proportion with the evil done by these biologically overproductive ladies and gentlemen.
Nowadays, U.S. troops in England even kid one another about their medals. (A standing wisecrack: "He got that medal for preventing rape; he changed his mind.") But the U.S. is not the only reputable army with a lot on its chest. Russian officials joyfully announced last week that over 2...
Long before the Prime Minister's speaking time, the restive House was jampacked. Not in five months had the House of Commons heard from its star reporter, the man who more than any other could cast events in "scale, structure and proportion." Since then the Allied world had passed...
Died. Charles Eugene Bedaux, 56, wily industrial engineer; of a self-administered overdose of sleeping powders; in Miami, Fla. Dark, affable, French-born Bedaux came to the U.S. in 1906 as a laborer, in 1915 evolved the Bedaux System which purported to reward workers amply in proportion to work done...
"The Digest started out as a reprint magazine, but grew into something quite different. Nowadays a large proportion of its contents is frankly original with the Digest and not presented as reprint material; and of the stuff that is presented as reprint material, much actually originates in the office of...