Word: ratio
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...sympathetic audience and often giggles appreciatively at a query, but is also capable of indignation. She is a pretty good barometer of telegraphic opinion. When TIME asks for a cross section of opinion on a subject in the news, she can sometimes give a general idea about the ratio of pro to anti telegrams and their intensity...
...spite of rising costs, he scarcely added one iota to the annual school assessment. He kept the student-teacher ratio at 19 to 1, bought $60,000 worth of new shop equipment in 1949, even paid up a $23,000 bonded debt six years before it was due. How did he manage? The school board never bothered to ask. It was so thoroughly delighted with $6,800-a-year Superintendent Smith that this year it voted him a $1,200 raise...
Overall, Douglas had its best peacetime year. Sales, 87% military, were $522.6 million, more than double 1951's $225.1 million. Net profit was up ($10,792,285 v. $6,912,829 in 1951) along with dividends ($3.75 v. $3.50 in 1951). Only ratio of net income to sales fell, dropping from 3.1% in 1951 to 2.1% last year...
McKay scholars are required to fulfill the same general education requirements as other students. Most of their engineering work will be done under the Department of Applied Sciences which currently has 110 undergraduates and a faculty of 50. This is an unusually favorable faculty-student ratio, Dean Bender pointed...
Robertson said last night he has received 31 replies to his letter, with the ratio running about two to one in favor of his proposal for a "Free Enterprise Fund" and an alumni "watchdog committee." Many alumni, he said in the letter, have told him they would double their gifts if Harvard would clear out is "pinks...