Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diabetes usually sets in after 40. Since 1900 child mortality and deaths from infectious diseases have dropped steadily, so that more people survive into middle age. In 1900, 23.4% of the population was over 40 years. In 1940 the proportion reached 33.2%. Thus, by an irony of medical progress, more...
The Commandos slip or bash their way inside the steel arc of Rundstedt's defenses to feel out German techniques. But old Rundstedt can tell himself that it has been an even trade. By their raiding, the British have had to give away their own techniques: how they carry...
. . . Such conditions as the author describes may be peculiar to one yard and, I suspect, may have been magnified out of proportion by an uninformed and mechanically unintelligible "greenhorn.". . .
items of war are out of proportion to the U.S. ability to put fighting armies on fighting fronts. Furthermore, it is apparently the considered opinion of the U.S. High Command that the total of British troops, equipment and shipping available for continental action is not enough for a second front...
Morale is quite good-always seems to improve in proportion to the nearness of actual danger. U.S. soldiers stand up very well under almost constant bombings. It would be useless to pretend all are heroes. But after a few days most of them turn up okay. They take particular pride...