Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What," he asked, "is our policy in Korea? ... Our losses there in ratio to the men committed have already reached staggering proportions ... I have strongly urged the need for a positive policy . . . designed to stop, through strength, this slaughter of America's sons. [We have] a policy vacuum heretofore unknown...
...your dentist twice a year, see your doctor, but for people without money this is of no use. Our posters tell what the people can do themselves. For things like TB, we tell the people what the symptoms are and where to go for treatment. The ratio of doctors is admittedly poor. So is our individual output. This is not due to the present government, but to thousands of years of feudalism and one hundred years of Imperialism. Our railway milege now exceeds that of pre-war China...
Harvard's Geology Department is easily one of the best in the country. Sparkling lecture artists like Kirkley F. Mather and Don Leet brighten up most of the classrooms, and the high ratio of teachers to students makes up for the missing tutorial...
Allocation to a College, decided by a five-man committee, has varied from assigning men by a delicate ratio system to a lottery...
...preparing you for the Army General Classification Test, but it should also be useful practice for the basic tests given by all branches of service. While most questions asked on such tests are elementary, and some are so mechanical that no preparation is possible, a few hours refresher is "Ratio and Proportion Problems" or "Graph and Chart Analysis" shouldn't hurt the AGCT score of any non-math concentrator. And then there are those exasperating "Cube Counting" and "Cube Turning" problems which some pre-test practice would make slightly less nerve-shattering...