Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which has developed such cost-cutting methods as bulk buying and close cooperation with manufacturers (TIME, Feb. 25). The two partners dovetail in another way: Simpsons' mail-order business has always run two to one in favor of clothing, draperies and other soft goods, while at Sears the ratio has been reversed in favor of major appliances and other "big ticket" items. Simpsons-Sears's first catalogue, due in January, will take note of this by including an extra 40 pages devoted to such Sears specialties as sporting goods and housewares...
This year several Foundation students were accepted into fraternities, but a far smaller ratio than the percentage accepted from the sophomore class as a whole. In athletics, they have been unable to keep up with their more mature classmates in strenuous competitive sports, while their contributions to publications has been generally negligible. Said the News in a second editorial. "Social life, extra-curricular activities, and athletics are nearly as essential to a full Yale education as academic work, yet the majority of the Ford Scholars will be missing out on these three counts...
This simple design has a bad limitation. All the rows of blades in the single compressor must revolve at the same speed. This works all right up to a compression ratio of about eight to one. Above this ratio single compressors are found to be inefficient, even though they may have as many as 16 rows of blades. Since the efficiency of the engine depends largely on the pressure of its incoming air, the single compressor sets a limit to the engine's performance...
...quickly made amends to the Post with a special Hatlo cartoon (a Post editor tearing his hair and screaming "Kill the Hatlo cartoon!! No, better still, kill Hatlo!") and Ratio's "abject apologies to every dog ... in Denver." Said his apology: "This sort of thing is always happening to me. If I draw a cold-weather cartoon showing my characters shivering in their red underwear . . . the temperature will rise to about 102°F. the day it appears...
Johnson said another factor which helped to put the Experiment off the list was the Council's decision to equalize the ratio between national and international charities appearing on the list...