Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Population Ratio Followed...
...House is on the basis of population, it is necessary that the number of representatives from each state be in proportion to its population. If population grew uniformly throughout the country there would be no need for reapportionment, but population does not grow in that way. So periodically a ratio is determined (one representative to a certain unit of population) and the number of Congressmen to each state is reapportioned. Naturally, Congressmen object to any reapportionment which would reduce their numbers and throw some of them out of jobs. Consequently at every reapportionment except one (that following the Census...
...proposed to make a new apportionment, with 483 Congressmen at a ratio of one to every 218,986 population...
...instead of her full debt of over $3,000,000,000. Moreover, instead of paying it from the French share of the Experts' Plan annuities, Britain required her to pay independently of such receipts, but offered later reductions in ratio to her own receipts from Germany. This did not suit the French and they left for.Paris to lay the situation before the Cabinet...
...This ratio of art and mechanics is exactly reversed in later American architecture. No man in his right senses could affirm that an Americanising architect allowed the interior measurements of the rooms to show such discrepancies, and the buttresses and walls to reduce the windows to such inadequate dimensions. And so the mediaeval guildsmen of Newhaven will henceforward take their place in history as true pioneers, who built rather by inspiration than by contract; and their work will be another proof of the triumph of spirit over matter, worthy to rank with Egyptian Karnak and our own Gimp. For five...