Word: ratios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With 581 men still under Plan A, the ratio is approximately 2-1 in favor of full tutorial instruction, University officials declined to state if his was to be a permanent ratio, or if they expect to increase or diminish the number on modified tutorial in future years...
...specific judgment by Maryland on the past, present and future of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. In a memorably heavy vote, Maryland passed this judgment with relatively little disorder for a primary in which feelings had risen so high. Result: Millard E. Tydings unPurged by a ratio...
Similarly cautious optimism was the most that other indicators offered last week. The war scare depressed stock prices but not severely, and volume of selling was light. Demand deposits in Federal Reserve Member banks were near the peak set at the end of 1936 but the turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year...
Since Father Keane's novena began, Novenites have addressed some 4,000,000 petitions, on slips of paper, to Our Lady of Sorrows. No statistics exist on the ratio between prayers and fulfillments, but in Father Keane's church alone, 80,000 letters are on file from Catholics whose prayers have been answered. An analysis of 800,000 petitions showed them to be predominantly personal, begging jobs, boy friends, good health, etc. Only 8,000 of the faithful asked nothing for themselves, petitioning good health for the Pope, etc., or, in one case, a cure for Dizzy Dean...
...Luckypenny, Bruce Marshall (Father Malachy's Miracle) demonstrates this development with a sermon thriller hinging on three themes : 1) that "rich men have been too selfish," which in turn makes the poor "unable to govern their greed," 2) that "mechanical invention has progressed out of all ratio to spiritual perfection," 3) that "men no longer believe...