Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...understood that the two metals concerned are gold and silver; and that this mutual relation is in, or through their use as money. Within these limits bimetallism may mean more or less. It means either the system of national bimetallism with free coinage of both metals at the legal ratio; or else, and this more properly, the system of international bimetallism, with a free coinage of the metals at a ratio common to the contracting nations. The term would also embrace the various monetary systems proposed by Professor Alfred Marshall of Cambridge University, Sir James Stewart, and Mr. Anson Phelps...
...four hundred shekels for it throws but a faint light on the purchasing power of money in his time; while the proud boast that King Solomon "made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones," though enough to make Senators Jones and Stewart rank infidels, does not even suggest a ratio...
...Mauny-Talvande has little sympathy with the present system of education in France, inasmuch as it removes religion entirely from the schools. As a result of the withdrawal of religious instruction from the schools, he says, crime has increased in the ratio...
...alone might safely coin silver at a proper ratio: A. S. Stokes, Joint Metallism; W. C. Oates in Cong, Record XXV, App., 152-155. - (a) The proper ratio would be that which would most nearly coincide with market ratio. - (b) This ratio is ascertainable. - (c) There would be no tendency for silver to drive out gold. - (1) A silver dollar would contain a gold dollar's worth of silver. - (d) Our present silver money could be gradually recoined at new ratio; meanwhile government's fiat would maintain it at parity with gold as it does...
McCrea outclasses Norton Shaw. He has been decried all the season for playing listlessly, but his big height and experience ought to count against a short, new player. But Shaw has improved in a greater ratio than any Harvard player...