Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Tutors, apparently aware of the growth of the good student to good tutor ratio, decided to eliminate some of the students, thus raising standards for honors while bettering tutorial. The Committee told the bottom quarter of junior concentrators last spring that they had failed their general exams and would not be able to write theses. The previous year, no junior failed on his History and Lit. generals...
...restrictions on the shipment of strategic goods to Poland, upped exports so that more dollars worth of goods have already been delivered so far this year than were shipped all of last year. The Poles have increased exports to the U.S., e.g., canned hams, Christmas ornaments, have leveled the ratio of their trade to the East and West from 70-30 a year...
...machine that enables them to get in and out of bed without help. Developed by an aircraft design engineer named Leslie L. Miller, the Auto-Nurse is a complicated arrangement of harness, pulleys and cables powered by a tiny (1/12 h.p.) electric motor with high gear ratio and operated from a master control in the patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair. The machine has safety features so that the patient will not be dropped...
...titanium had fallen short of everyone's high hopes for it. Complained a vice president of a titanium-producing steel company: "Titanium is the greatest fiasco in metallurgical history. It draws gases to it like flies to flypaper. The cost is forbiddingly high, and the strength-to-weight ratio is not everything it's cracked...
...titanium struggled, stainless-steel alloys were being developed to approach it in heat resistance and strength-to-weight ratio. And titanium, at $18 a Ib. for the top alloys, cannot compete with the stronger stainless steels at $2 a Ib. The big hope for producers now is to lower the price radically, make titanium cheap enough for civilian uses...