Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Harding: "I shall be 65 years old the 18th of this month. ... To the end that I may have time to read many books, ... to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes, . . . and as a beginning of what I hope may be at least a partial realization of this philosophy of my later life, I hereby resign. . . ." He kept his word; the chief cause which he has served is the League of Nations cause. Last May he made an extensive speech-making tour (TIME, May 5). What he preached was League?League first, and other considerations...
...President appointed Silas H. Strawn, of Chicago, a Republican, and Thomas W. Gregory of Austin, Tex., a Democrat, to investigate and prosecute the alleged frauds. Mr. Strawn, although rated as a Republican, was a supporter of Grover Cleveland, and a partial supporter of Woodrow Wilson. He is a member of the Chicago law firm of Winston, Strawn and Shaw. Garrard Winston, one of his partners, is now Undersecretary of the Treasury. Mr. Strawn is Chairman of the Board of Montgomery Ward & Co. He is Chairman of the American Bar Asso- ciation's Committee on Legal Education...
...that the obligatory partial payment of wages to seamen while on voyage be repealed, because it encourages desertion, delays and loss of efficiency...
...friends -Nannie, the fat old nurse of her childhood, who sticks by her through the dark days; Mr. Reel, fat lawyer who would give anything he ever owned to help her, and, in fact, does give her any amount of good advice, which she cheerfully disregards-to her own partial undoing. Above all, there is the invaluable Hal Utrecht, Mrs. Larry Fay's counsel, who is the prime mover in the happy ending...
...always turned toward him. In other words, one side has been baked by the sun's heat for countless aeons, while the other is chilled by everlasting night. Indraughts of tremendous power in the Venusian atmosphere must rush from the cold to the hot side, creating a partial vacuum in the center of the illuminated hemisphere, with vast meteorological and electrical disturbances. At intervals of a year and three-fifths Venus and the earth are in conjunction, the orbit of Venus being located about one-third of the distance between that of the earth and the sun. At every...