Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second fact of importance carried in the Treasurer's report is the exact statement of the tuition-to-cost ratio. With the operating expenses of the University over nine million dollars, less than one fourth of the amount is paid by the students in actual tuition charges. Included in the operating expenses, however, are enrolled items amounting to approximately another fourth of the total sum which are paid indirectly or directly by the students in the form of rent, food bills, and miscellaneous charges. The blunt fact remains that about one half of the University's operating cost...
...five great divisions of genetic problems which are capable of successful investigation in laboratory mammals, viz., the genetic bases for size & growth, fertility & sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination of hereditary defects, of gaining new light on the inheritance of mental characteristics...
...Duce up to last week, when he found a way to mask failure behind a dazzling cabinet decree. This document, issued with a triumphal flourish, establishes the lira on a gold basis? not, however, at par (five lira to the dollar), but at 19 to the dollar, the new ratio being slightly lower than the ordinary quotation of the lira on international exchange in recent weeks...
...president. 2) More "practical" is the Honorary Advisory Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Canada. To this he also belongs. 3) Finally, Canada in proportion to population and national wealth has more scientific and technical societies than has the U. S.*; videlicet: Canada U. S. Ratio...
...simply made public the text of a bill revising the present statute under which the number of Jewish students in Hungarian colleges is limited to about 5% of the total student body. Close examination of the new bill showed that even if passed it would not increase the Jewish ratio by more than 1%. But in anti-Semitic Hungary one more percent in Jews can seem too many. Even so, why did not the Hungarian police protect harassed Jewish scholars, last week...