Word: parte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being conferred. On attempting to escape from the room she was discovered . . . After considerable discussion, the members decided that only one course was open to them. The fair culprit, with a high sense of honor, at once consented to pass through the impressive ceremonials she had already in part witnessed...
...child I attended several grades in a tiny, old-style country school deep in the Ozarks. It has always been a source of amusement in our family-that part of our "education." Now I am horrified to see my own son entering school in much worse surroundings: more dilapidated, crowded, dirty and understaffed schools than that Ozark country school . . . May I suggest that someone make a mold of Principal Joseph Schwertz of New Orleans' Beauregard school [TIME, July 25], then cast about 1,000 copies of him and distribute them in California...
They had also come to bury, but not to praise, outgoing Chairman Hugh Scott, who had quit before he could be thrown out (TIME, Aug. 1). Scott, a faithful workman in 86-year-old Joe Grundy's Pennsylvania political machine, had gotten the job as part of the Pennsylvania Deal which gave the nomination to Dewey at Philadelphia. Now he made one final plea for party unity. "For 17 years, we've been taking in each other's washing without enough outside business to break even . . ." It was now a choice, said Scott, between Republican revival...
...have had around 45 years in the mines. I now have a wife and nine children all under age. I had a mine accident in 1942 . . . got my back and both legs broke. I am unable to do any work . . . Part of my children had to finish school without any shoes and part of the time they didn't have money for lunch. I have three babies that ought to have milk to drink and I can't buy it for them . . . I have no other income only what I get from the welfare fund-and that...
...Brookhaven, AEC doctors have fitted tiny lead shields around the adrenal glands of rats and turned on the radiation. These rats lived significantly longer than unshielded ones, proving that radiation does part of its damage by upsetting the hormone secretions of the adrenal gland. Other researchers found that treatment with female sex hormones increased rats' resistance to radiation. Out of such work may come techniques of immunization against the radiation hazards which, even without atomic war, are sure to become more troublesome in the future...