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Word: proportionately (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Washington last week undramatic RFC Administrator Jesse Jones made no flowery speech as he handed over the money (although he did say, eloquently for a banker, "They can buy everything that humans need in everyday life"). Nor did modest K. P. Chen, Chinese banker who negotiated the 1936 U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Everyday Life | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Preparing to celebrate the end of his first year as Nazi Health Führer, Dr. Conti distributed to U. S. teachers and doctors good-looking statistics on German health. The statistics are correct. But, in a hard little book (Heil Hunger!-Alliance Books-$1.75), Dr. Martin Gumpert, former head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Health Under Hitler | 3/11/1940 | See Source »

> Biggest proportion of the 94,921 unused visas was British. Given the largest of all quotas (65,721), Great Britain and North Ireland used only 3,604 (5%).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: Travel Log | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

Germany also has a greater proportion of arable and cultivated land than Great Britain. With a larger number of people to care for this land, Germany again holds the upper hand. England has been continually trying to bottle up Germany's system of waterways which introduces the greater portion of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Whittlesey Says Germany Can Continue Combat Indefinitely | 3/2/1940 | See Source »

Unlike some who helped to build "the Beach," John Levi has not lost his sense of proportion. Says he: "They say Carl Fisher was the father of the beach, and that I am the son of the beach."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Pleasure Dome | 2/19/1940 | See Source »

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