Word: ratio
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Members of he Graduate Student Club have reopened their clubhouse at 18 Appian Way for the fourth consecutive year but are faced with a dismal ten to one ratio of males to females on their roster...
...divisions. The U.S. has one understrength division and four or five housekeeping and constabulary regiments scattered from one end of its zone to the other. U.S. air strength is shockingly inadequate, consists of little more than two fighter groups and one bomber group. U.S. observers say that the ratio of Soviet to U.S. air strength is about...
...isolated unit of less than one battalion supported by one battery of field artillery, which was at Osan yesterday, was attacked by the best Red division, supported by 40 tanks, which were extremely skillfully maneuvered. The ratio of troops engaged was more than eight to one against the American forces. For more than six hours the American forces held off the invaders until their ammunition was exhausted, and then withdrew . . . The American forces were being enveloped on both flanks. {They} were confronted with a resourceful Red commander who skillfully applied frontal pressure with envelopment...
...market at the present time may bear a position somewhat similar to 1924 [when it began an ultimate 296-point rise]." This was not as fantastic as it sounded; if the stocks in the Dow-Jones industrial index rose until they sold at 15.7 times earnings-the 1946 ratio-the index would top1929's record high of 386. Said cautious, sober New York Curb Exchange President Francis Adams Truslow last week: "Barring short-term adjustments, I am sure that the trend is toward a higher level." Wall Street Analyst Thomas W. Phelps put it more sprightly: "The people...
Harvard's geology department is almost certainly the best in the country. Sparkling lecture artists like Kirtley F. Mather and L. Don Leet brighten up many of the classrooms, and the high teacher-student ratio makes up for the missing tutorial...