Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hohner of Hohner. "The expansion of the harmonica industry in modern imes has been in closely related ratio to be frequency and magnitude of modern wars." Thus postulated, at Manhattan ast week, Herr Doktor Will Hohner, on of him who founded the famed M. Hohner Harmonica Co. in 1856. Herr Doktor Hohner, who had just landed from he liner Berlin, continued: "Our factories at Trossingen in the Black Forest still employ twice as many workers as before he World War. . . . The Boer War was chief cause operating to produce the introduction of the harmonica into South Africa. . . . Japan might still...
...armed forces. American investments in foreign lands without prior declaration of war" was successfully upheld by a trio of debaters from Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, against the University team last night in Paine Hall. The decision given by the audience favored the Western speakers by a two to one ratio...
Between the extremes of evangelical Christianity and the Roman Catholic Church there slants an almost unbroken line: the emphasis placed upon alcoholic temperance by the denominations along this line increases in ratio to their distance from the Roman Catholic Church which does not favor Prohibition...
...might jeopardize our communications, east, west, north, south, in any attack from the air." ¶ The ambitious project of founding a "Pan-American League of Nations" by endowing the Pan-American Union- with political powers was sacked in subcommittee and finally in committee by an adverse vote in the ratio of two to one. ¶ The Conference solemnly and gallantly assembled to hear speeches in behalf of Pan-American womanhood...
...ratio of bonds to stocks in the reorganized company is too large. The stockholders, not the bondholders, are responsible for a company's directors; and through them, for its officers; and through them for its management. By the adopted reorganization, many a former St. Paul stockholder became a bondholder, i. e. a creditor instead of a partner. The Commissioners felt this feature tended against public interest...