Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowes maintained that the University had never fixed the extent to which it would make use of the union in securing new employees. He implied that an attempt would be made to maintain the present ratio of union to non-union workers. The University would feel free to hire the best man for the job, but would be scrupulously fair...
...complex but small and neat layout of generators with movable stators, potentiometers, gears, cams, rectifiers, amplifiers, etc. Reduced to simplest terms, a series of potentiometers (low-resistance voltmeters) is set to correspond to the coefficients of the equations to be solved. A second series is geared together in the ratio of squares, cubes and higher powers. All the roots of an eighth-degree equation can be obtained in a half hour with a limit of error not greater than one or two per cent...
...outside electron never fell into its own nucleus. At Ohio State University, Dr. Marion Llewellyn Pool bombarded silver with various projectiles, made it artificially radioactive. Thirty-five times more gamma rays than electrons spurted out of the radioactive silver. The only way Dr. Pool could explain this abnormally high ratio was by assuming that the nucleus had captured one of its own outside electrons...
...mind their tongues, Dr. Bel, a heart specialist who has been Charity's director since early in 1936, declared: "I have attempted in every way possible to at least ameliorate the frightful conditions surrounding the hospitalization of patients. My efforts, I believe, have been somewhat successful. The ratio of patients to beds used to be 1.7. It is now 1.2. But, in spite of this, much remains to be done in order to remedy a situation which undoubtedly has no parallel in the medical annals of America...
...hurricane survivors that hurricane sounds vary according to the shape and solidity of objects in the path of the wind. Scale models of buildings and trees were placed in a governed wind stream, and the differing effects recorded. Then Goldwyn engineers stepped up the recording pitch by the same ratio that existed between the scale models and the actual set, got the authentic sound of wind velocities as high as 250 m.p.h...