Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown and Page saw it, the trick was to reverse the animal-vegetable fat ratio while disturbing the eating patterns as little as possible. They did this by: 1) eliminating most of the saturated fat from the diet by cutting out fatty meats, butter, whole milk, cream, most cheeses, egg yolks, oleomargarine, hydrogenated shortenings, coconut and cocoa products; 2) adding cottonseed oil (though soybean, corn or peanut oil would have done as well) to make up the fat deficit...
...Crawford of Britain's Medical Research Council persuaded 206 hospitals to report on post-mortem examinations of the hearts and coronary arteries of 5,000 men, regardless of the cause of death. The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, show that heart disease occurs in inverse ratio to the heaviness of work. Large, healed scars in the heart muscle-evidence of a long-ago heart attack-were three times commoner in light workers (schoolteachers, bus drivers, clerks) than in heavy workers (boilermakers, dock laborers, coal hewers). Most striking, such scars were four to five times commoner among light...
Carleton is not without its own severe critics. Not long ago the faculty completed an assessment of the college, decided that the cherished 10.5-to-1 student-faculty ratio and 1,000-odd enrollment were wasteful. Result: by 1965, the ratio will be increased to 12.5-10-1 (students will do more independent studying), and the enrollment raised...
...year's end some Wall Street professionals worried that the Bull had overreached himself, that the market had gone too high too fast. A few years ago, a stock that was selling for 15 times its earnings was considered expensive. At year's end the price-earnings ratio for industrials on Moody's index stood at 21, and for many stocks it was much higher, e.g., IBM is selling at 47 times earnings. Viewed at current earnings, the market may indeed be too high, reflecting a hedge against more inflation as well as a hope of sharing...
Quincy House will also alleviate somewhat the large number of converted rooms. The Administration will "start" to attain the normal ratio of one bedroom to one student, but the construction of Quincy House will not at all bring this about, he added...