Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduce their armaments by, say, 10 per cent, their relative strengths, other things being equal, would remain the same. There would be no gain in terms of security. No limitation of armaments, whether at existing level or at an agreed lower level, is practicable, because the ratios between the Powers are inconstant. If A and B agree to limit their armaments, the real ratio will be changed if, for example, A invents new weapons or if B concludes an alliance. There is still a lingering belief in total disarmament, as distinct from a reduction of armaments. Total disarmament would exclude...
...when horsepower was pushing the 60s, there were 39,643 traffic fatalities in the U.S., or 13.3 deaths for every 10,000 passenger vehicles on the road. In 1941, as horsepower crept higher, there were about the same number of deaths, but with more cars on the highways the ratio dropped to 11.6 per 10,000 autos in use. The 1953 fatality figure was actually lower (38,300) than in 1937. And there were fewer than seven deaths per 10,000 vehicles, or about half the 1937 ratio. Said Director John W. Maloof of the Georgia Citizen's Council...
...closest thing to forceful opposition comes from the editor of the Mississippi State College newspaper. In certain counties, the paper points out, where the ratio of students is eight Negroes to one white, it will be many years before integration is even feasible. The paper therefore supports an amendment to the State constitution allowing the abolition of public schools. The paper also says that "countless other devices can be called into legal use" to prevent mixing the races, including "the use of military and police power." Some students are extreme, says the paper, while others "stand in a quagmire...
...Magical Ratio...
Other considerations than ability will have to be taken into account. With greatly increased costs because of building and faculty, scholarship funds may not increase proportionately. They probably will not be available in the same 1:4 ratio that they are at present. John U. Monro '34, director of the Financial Aid Center, asks, "Why should there be anything magical about our present ratio" If there are more qualified students who can pay their own way why shouldn't we admit them...