Word: proportionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mr. Morgenthau outlined four objectives: 1) to pay for a reasonable proportion of expenditures; 2) to provide that all sections of the public shall bear their fair share of the burden; 3) to help mobilize U.S. resources for defense by reducing the amount of money that the public can spend...
This fine, fat, encouraging figure is misleading. For one thing, a large proportion of this tonnage is impounded by the Admiralty and requisitioned for military purposes: transport of troops, supply of the Mediterranean campaigns, armed merchant-cruising with convoys. Besides, much of the tonnage is unsuitable for the task of...
Last night's production overemphasized the abstractions of plot and dialogue, thus throwing out of proportion the living drama of the actual characters, Dion, Brown, Margaret and Cybel. The body movements and pitch of voice in the characterizations of Dion Anthony, by Roger Henselman '42, and Billy Brown, by Richard...
The report of the National Council estimates that in 1939 (the year covered by its survey) 2,600 graduates were sent out to look for jobs and only 1,385 found them. Of these, 816 were Class A fledglings. Plain implication: if colleges and universities would refrain from teaching journalism...
In Peru, one strand was swept out completely: Lufthansa Peru. Tiny L.P. operated only two old Junkers over a 1,210-mile route, had a total investment of scarcely more than $50,000. But it pegged the German luftweb on the West Coast, connected with a route reaching straight across...