Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...elections. -Last March, the U. S. Supreme Court declared such courts unconstitutional. The referendum would have made such courts constitutional in Ohio. *Machines in which betters place their money on their chosen horses, receiving tickets in return. The betting odds of each race are figured by the machines in ratio to the total amount bet on each horse and winners cash in their tickets at these odds, which are not announced until after each race. The machines also figure out a percentage for their operators, and for the State...
...previously been absent in the rosy abstractions of diplomatic oratory. It seems as though the action of the League is nearly always tardy or indecisive when it depends upon the fourteen chair-holding and voting nations. For example, the Americans who feared the six-to-one British voting ratio will not be mollified to learn that this year Canada has been elected to a voting place. The assurance by the Imperial Government that the colonies are autonomous communities within the British Empire will be queried in several more states in the Union than Illinois...
...been said a man is a genius in the ratio that he possesses woman's qualities (emotion, perception, tenderness, ruthlessness). Genius Balieff possessed one woman's quality, and it finally drove him to desert the Moscow Art. He craved to talk. To satisfy this craving he formed his own theatre; in its early days a sort of music hall cafe, and called it The Bat. "When I make the theatre in a cellar, as I go in one day. . . one bat was flying...
Precautions? When U. S. President Calvin Coolidge issued invitations to the Parley (TIME, Feb. 21), he stressed an intent to extend the 5-5-3 Washington Treaty ratio to cover not only capital ships (as at present) but auxiliary craft as well. Mere "extension" seemed not to call for the same amount of preliminary sounding out which would have been advisable had a wholly new problem been up for consideration. Thus President Coolidge is reputed to have entered the affair with no more than routine caution...
...less than 10% of the island population. The most recent official figures on Hawaii (the Federal Census of 1920) gave the Islands a population of 255,912. This population was divided into 13 racial groups, of which the Japanese, with 109,274 outnumbered any other single group by a ratio of about 4 to 1. The present population of the Islands is estimated at something more than 300,000, of whom more than 120,000 are Japanese...