Word: proportionately
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Make It Look Easy. Pitchmen, happily tracing their ancestry back to the ancient Phoenician traders who once unloaded junk jewelry on Greek housewives, have not changed much in the past few thousand years. But in recent years they have moved indoors; first as department store demonstrators and then as radio...
Actually, the furor over auto and steel prices was way out of proportion to their small effect on the cost of living. Retail food prices, which are far more important to consumers, had risen almost as much (4.3%) since Korea. But in the face of the politically potent farm bloc...
Sir: TIME'S Christopher Fry cover story is extravagant and outrageous. The praise that is heaped upon the exuberance of the Fry metaphor is all out of proportion to the dubious merit of the tawdry and self-conscious Shakespearianism of The Lady's Not for Burning . . . ALAN R...
The effectiveness of the U.N. air force had been severely limited by the fact that, like U.N. ground and naval forces, it was forbidden to strike at the enemy's main Manchurian bases-"an enormous handicap unprecedented in military history." But the real reason for the U.N.'s...
Varsity Club Cooperates Hazel cited the fact that only half of the Harvard Clubs have active Schools Committees and that the proportion is lower among those west of the Alleghanies.