Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AMERICANIZATION: Hawaii is thoroughly American and has proved its loyalty America during the Second World War and also during the Korean conflict. The army, navy, and FBI all attest to this record and praise it. The men of Hawaii are subject to the draft. During the Korean conflict, the ratio of casualties from Hawaii on a population basis was six times that of the United States...
...also points out that most House libraries are open for studying until after 10 p.m. If students find it impossible to work in their rooms. As for reserve books, an average of one copy for every ten students is kept on hand for long-term reading assignments, and the ratio diminishes with the amount of time allowed for the completion of the assignment. Obviously, says McNiff, the library cannot stock a book for each student in a course. "If this were the case, the University might just as well start giving away free texts...
...from medium-priced ($2,500) to luxurious ($7,200) custom models. Except for rounding off the boxy look of earlier models, most of the changes were under the hood. Into Packard's Caribbean convertible has been put a new straight-eight, 212-h.p. engine with the highest compression ratio (8.7 to 1) in the industry...
...there's probably more than one thief still hiding in our Washington chicken coop, and the chances are about 1 to 5 that each holds at least one Harvard degree. (That is the approximate ratio among those identified by witnesses whose testimony is set forth in the report: "Interlocking Subversion in Government Departments...
...remarkable echo of the old. Coincidence is used just as recklessly; the old fictional virtues of pluck and luck dominate every page. But Tom Jr. has it all over his proud dad as an inventor. Where the old hero aroused the admiration of his fans by changing the gear ratio to get unheard-of speed out of his motorcycle, his son completes a revolutionary radioactivity detector overnight. In 1910, Tom had his readers chewing their nails when he ascended in a crude dirigible. In 1954's Tom Swift and His Flying Lab, the alert hero finds the world...