Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...designates as the middle class businessman-husband; the man whose unimportance at the office is in inverse ratio to his assumption of authority at home; the stupid oaf who reads the newspaper aloud to his family ; the man whose conversation is largely confined...
Later on H. E. Salt sL., delegate from Great Britain, and Robert Francillon 1G., delegate from France, fought out the old controversy over the ratio of sea armaments, La Cauzei, delegate from Italy, coming to the aid of France...
...portion of the 65,000,000 acres of land that can be cultivated is now producing. I would place the figure at about 12,000,000 acres. Small though this number may seem, it is nevertheless supporting a population of nearly 11,000,000 people. When one considers the ratio 12 to 65, one can see that the islands can support approximately 60,0000,000 people with little more congestion, when the islands as a whole are considered, than there is today...
...seats) is of course plain: no nation would be mad enough to think of uniting with a financially and politically chaotic Germany when its own economic life is improving under the aegis of the League of Nations. The decline of Pan-Germanism (Union with Germany) has been in ratio to the in- creased prosperity of the nation...
...union church would have 2,600,000 communicants and as many more adherents, principally north of the Mason and Dixon line. Its average annual donations would be close to $75,000,000. (The present ratio of Presbyterians to Congregationalists is about...