Word: ratio
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Although UMass is located in the center of a college area (Amherst is one mile away, Smith and Mt. Holyoke each only a short drive), the student's social life revolves around the co-educational population of the University campus, where the ratio is approximately six men to four women. The social life of the campus, in turn, revolves around the 14 fraternities, which are virtually the only place where students can bring dates (no women are allowed in men's rooms, or vice versa, and no liquor is allowed anywhere on campus except in fraternities). Thus on Saturday evenings...
...about six and a half minutes, The Tender Trap is a comedy. The play runs considerably over two hours. And this ratio makes one wonder if the standard Boston remedy of pruning the script will be quite enough. After a thorough job, the director would be left with but one scene and a few scattered chuckles, intermittent moments when The Tender Trap thrusts through the cultivated banality which marks 23/24s...
...GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH, I WOULD BEG TO CORRECT YOUR ESTIMATE OF THE LOCAL POPULATION OF VIRGINIA CITY IN THE REVIEW [AUG. 30] OF MY "COMSTOCK COMMOTION" FROM 2,450 TO THE ACTUAL 4OO. YOUR FIGURE SOUNDS BETTER, BUT IT ALSO GIVES US LESS FAVORABLE SALOON-TO-POPULATION RATIO. OUR 17 SALOONS FOR 4OO INHABITANTS, WE BELIEVE, IS THE GREATEST DENSITY IN THE U.S., AND WE DON'T WANT IT MISREPRESENTED...
...record ratio" of one doctor for every 730 inhabitants of the U.S. was claimed by the A.M.A. as a bumper crop of 6,861 medical-school graduates raised the total of physicians to 220,100. But fewer than half of these were in private general practice, and the number of patients for each full-time G.P. is 1,968-virtually unchanged since...
...power and reputation of a demagogue rise and fall in inverse ratio to the courage and determination of other men. Last week Joe McCarthy's reputation, perched precariously on a bale of old newspaper clippings and the timidity of his Senate colleagues, began to bobble slightly...