Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...surgical patients studied in ten university hospitals over a five-year period (1948-52), 384 died of anesthesia, a ratio of one death to 1,560 patients. Nearly one-fourth of all surgical deaths attributed to causes other than patients' own ailments were from anesthesia...
...compared to only 2,361,000 for Studebaker. Thus one share of Studebaker (valued at $42.81) equals 7½ shares of Packard (valued at $5.70 a share). On the New York Stock Exchange the spread was not as great; Studebaker was selling for $19 and Packard for $4, a ratio of only about five to one. On this basis, some Packard stockholders may complain that they are getting shortchanged, especially since this exchange would leave Studebaker shareholders with 55% of the new company. But they are not likely to hold up the merger, since neither company can do better alone...
...risky casualty business. In his eagerness to expand two-year-old General American, Erwin had taken on too much risk business. Said one insurance agent: "If you were running truckloads of nitroglycerine over the rough road to Acapulco. General American would insure you." The company's loss ratio was estimated to be running as high as 70% (v. a normal ratio...
...scholastic averages of two-thirds of all the girls at Middlebury fall within 93.8 and 80.4 points. Out of the 502 girls and 693 boys in the undergraduate body, there are 162 women on the Dean's List and 58 men. This is practically a three to one ratio, and in a small community it has powerful effects...
...increase the degree of coeducation in the College. There are two movie theaters, but on other than Saturday nights dating couples must catch an early show. There is some mid-week dating to campus activities, but it is a far cry from what the ten to one ratio of Harvard men to Radcliffe girls produces in the vicinity of metropolitan Boston's diversions...