Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this spirit and opportunity to get together, the Bunnies remain a diverse group. Athletes, scholars, and premeds are all Leverett inhabitants. The Hutch is supposed to house a high enough percentage of club members to rival, if not overwhelm, Eliot. At the same time it allegedly contains the highest ratio of scholarship students...
Even with a miracle of free service, many would have difficulty getting assistance. For every seven hundred citizens there is one physician, a ratio worse than in the 'twenties, before the Renaissance of medicine. By 1960 America will be short 35,000 doctors...
...Sunday's ratio was about the same, and the reporting no more accurate. In summing up the files McCarthy released, the Tribune said, ". . . some members of McCarthy's staff believed Schine would never have been drafted into the army except that 'extreme left wing writers' started 'screaming about his case'." The file cited said nothing of the draft, but deplored Schine's status quo as a private...
...ratio between the number that applied and the number accepted is atypical of the national picture. Of 14,651 seniors from the entire nation who sought admission to medical schools last year, 7,703 were accepted. The final figures for this year are not known yet, but Emerson estimated that there will be a slight drop in the number of applicants, while the admissions total will remain the same...
...Executive Director Clifford Petitt of New York City's Protestant Council warned council members about the disproportionately small number of Protestant judges in a city whose church membership is close to 30% Protestant. In Brooklyn, for instance, the ratio of Protestant judges is five out of 75, with the other judgeships divided roughly evenly between Roman Catholics and Jews. The court situation, said Petitt, is "crying for help from Protestantism," but New York's Protestants are still badly handicapped in making demands by the lack of unity among denominations. ¶ Writing in the British weekly Spectator...