Word: proportionate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Individuals vary widely, Dr. Peckham found, but on an average, sensitivity to light at night is reduced by more than one-third after a day at the beach without sunglasses; in some cases it is reduced by nine-tenths. The loss in sensitivity cuts down night vision in a "logarithmic...
Before the turn of the century, when the University faculty was of more manageable proportion, the University Council met fairly regularly to discuss academic problems.
None of the witnesses, said he, could have taken a picture. They had been gone over by the jail's $7,000 "inspectoscope," and with its X-ray beam it would have either detected the hidden camera or, at least, fogged its film. (City Room gossip was that Photographer...
Prime & Proportion. In brown-eyed, British-born Margot Fonteyn, Sadler's Wells had its coloratura. Her perfectly proportioned ballerina body (5 ft. 4 in., 112 Ibs.), her effortless grace and technique had U.S. ballet connoisseurs and critics going back for comparisons to such ballet immortals as Anna Pavlova, Olga...
"Medical services of all kinds will be used far more than today. The proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise ... A nation on a 30-hour week will have more opportunity to pursue a multitude of arts . . . The chance is good that the...