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Word: ratio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...direct ratio between brains and dollars is more or less established for the individual. The ratio between a father's dollars and his offspring's brains is another question. Last week, the Federal Bureau of Education announced that, according to the researches of one Andrew H. MacPhail and the late Professor Stephen S. Colvin of Brown University, this latter ratio is also direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Extension | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...ratio between a father's dollars and his offspring's brains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Oct. 13, 1924 | 10/13/1924 | See Source »

...case of the Brooks House canvasser, this refusal is not justified. The organization carries on a multitude of extremely worthwhile enterprises, and must depend for its support solely on what it can beg from case-hardened undergraduates. Its success in any given year is in direct ratio to what it receives in the form of checks and personal service...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PASSING THE HAT | 9/24/1924 | See Source »

...Washington Conference on Disarmament, we accepted a definite ratio in the matter of capital battleships of 5-5-3, as between Great Britain, America and Japan, startled an American to learn from the lips of the Secretary of the Navy himself that those in power have permitted America's actual strength in battleships to fall to the figure of four or below...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Words | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

...When that Conference ended, the public, I think, gathered the impres- sion that equality in naval equipment between Great Britain and America was assured and that American superiority over Japan at the ratio of five to three was fixed for the next ten years. I do not charge that this impression was the result of any intentional misrepresentation. But the American public is entitled to know that that Conference dealt in no way with modern cruisers, with submarines or the auxiliaries of a fleet; that, against 44 modern cruisers owned by Great Britain and 25 by Japan, the United States...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Words | 9/22/1924 | See Source »

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