Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been taught in Jesuit colleges, which for 400 years have stressed religion, philosophy and the humanities under the famous Ratio Studiorum . . . may now look forward to the more mature, sound and altruistic leadership which the "oldfashioned" education will unquestionably produce...
...campaign] . . . General Lucian Truscott [commander, 3rd Infantry Division, Italian campaign] stated that with cavalry for pursuit, he believed he could have achieved [a faster] victory in Italy . . . The late General Patton said, "In almost any conceivable theater of operations, situations arise where the presence of horse cavalry, in a ratio of a division to an army, will be of vital moment...
Church & Canasta. In college, more than half the class was of Republican background. Today, the ratio runs about the same-Republicans 56%, Independents 26%, and Democrats 16%. But 33% of the erstwhile Republicans have become Democrats, and 30% of the Democrats have become Republicans. One out of 20 men still votes Socialist...
...combine, with himself as president. Noble will be chairman of the finance committee; ABC's President Robert E. Kintner, onetime newspaper columnist (Alsop & Kintner), will head the company's ABC division. Paramount will swap its common and preferred stock for ABC's common at a ratio placing a value of $14.70 on each ABC share (last week's market price: $13). ABC will then have 16% of the new company's common stock; Noble will hold 9%. CBS, which had also been negotiating to buy ABC, will get something out of the deal...
...Tulsa, Okla. this week, before the American Petroleum Institute, General Motors planned to take the wraps off a still more advanced high-compression engine-the "19XX"-which answers the oilmen's objections. Like Kettering's, it has a 12-to-1 compression ratio, but it operates on 96-octane gas, within easy reach of refineries now making high-test gasoline (90-octane). G.M. has installed the engine in a 1951 Cadillac, put it through stiff road tests. Combined with a powerful new (and still secret) automatic transmission, the engine has already proved that it can cut gas consumption...