Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interested in your piece on the latest violation to the martini (Oct. 19). In college (sophomore year) we added snow peas in direct ratio to the proportion of vermouth to gin. This fad died out and we had to use up the supply of snow peas in chow mein. ANDERSON KELLEY Philadelphia...
...quad sounds like a Harvard House, but no--a House would not do for Princeton. In the quad there will be no Master, no Senior Tutor, almost no faculty members, no academic life of its own. "We plan a faculty to student ratio of 1:75," says Dean William D'O. Lippincott. The three bachelor faculty members who are chosen to live in the quad will have "no decentralized academic or disciplinary responsibilities," the Dean adds. "They will just be there...
...jets pay off. As the British Comets and U.S. Boeing 707s complete their first full year of operation, the planes are proving far more efficient than most airlines expected. The lines first thought that one big, swift jet would do the work of two conventional planes; the ratio is closer to one-to-three. So far, with only a relatively few jets in operation, the new planes are justifying their $5,500,000 price tag and then some. Pan American reports more than 90% load factors on its transatlantic jet runs. Next spring, when...
Eventually, according to the Dean, the Department of Financial Aid may achieve a one-two ratio of outright gifts to long-term loans. At present, the rate is one-three...
Died. Lieut. General Oscar Woolverton Griswold, 72, XIV Army Corps Commander (1943-45) in the Southwest Pacific, whose troops made the assaults on New Georgia and Bougainville (9,000 Japanese were killed at a ratio of 30 to every American death), as part of the Sixth Army mopped up the Japanese in southern Luzon; in Colorado Springs, Colo...