Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...astronomical work every photographic plate must be tested for sensitiveness. Mr. Ring, assistant at the Observatory, has found the shape which an aperture must have in order to give a shaded area on each plate that will vary in intensity in arithmetical ratio. By means of a narrow strip on each plate, varying from a very light shade to one of considerable darkness, the magnitude of the stars photographed may be measured with accuracy...
...commodities whose costs of production constantly change be kept at a fixed ratio? The very treaty formed to maintain a ratio might be broken by war. Can our opponents stand sponsors for the peace of Europe? Such a danger as this, when at best the advantages of bimetallism are problematical, make it clear that our present evils must be very great to justify such a leap in the dark. But that no such evils exist is proved by the immense economic prosperity of the past thirty years and what business troubles there are have been...
...third speaker for Harvard was Fletcher Dobyns '98. He began by a concise and clear analysis of the question at issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some...
...their platform they would at once arouse the flames of sectional and class jealousy. As a result the country at the next election would fall into the hands of the free silverites,- exactly what it was most desired to prevent-and we should have then free silver at a ratio...
...Free coinage of silver by U. S. at ratio of 16 to 1 would not raise silver to parity with gold. A. The legal tender quality alone will not keep silver at par. (1) This is disproved by (a) Case of present Mexican dollar; (b) Case of greenbacks during the war (Laughlin Rev. of Rev., Sept. '96). B. History shows that an increased demand for silver for use in coinage has not caused a permanent rise in the price of silver. (1) From '78 to '93 the price of silver has steadily fallen, though, (a) during that period...