Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union is a branch of the American Federation of Labor. A contest for control had flared up between these two. The Communist organizers had fostered the Gastonia strike, which now was not moving rapidly enough toward victory to suit the strikers. The mills had hired other workers, continued partial operation. The strikers had grown hungry. Communist Organizers Fred Irwin Beal and George Pershing had dropped out of sight. Many an observer was ready to believe that the raid upon the Communist headquarters in Gastonia was made by disgruntled strikers, weary of the Communist leadership. No excessive effort was made...
...Certain degenerate courtiers of dissolute Louis XV claimed to derive exquisite sensations from a partial hanging of this type, which they called Le Coup de Corde. Many experienced hangmen maintain, and so does Novelist James Joyce, that the sensations of a man at the moment he is hanged are by no means always unpleasant, to judge from spasmodic reactions often observed...
...Among the European delegations it is realized clearly," said the Voegler-controlled Zeitung "that the Second Dawes Committee will not bring a definite settlement of the Reparations problem, but that a relatively favorable partial solution can be counted upon which will take account of the interests of all concerned. A definite solution of the whole complex problem will be possible only when the United States will consider a re-examination of its War debt demands...
...pharmacists, Theodore Andreiev and Alexei Alexandrovich Kuliabko, pumped a modified Ringer's solution* into the veins of a man dead 29 hours. After some hours the cadaver's heart began to beat feebly. The body developed a slight warmth. The throat gurgled. The eyelids fluttered. The reactions resembled the partial reviving of a drowned person. Unbearably horrified, the experimenters stopped their pumping. They let the corpse subside and go on to its normal course of decay...
...promise Englishmen whatever they want, and to blame the Conservatives for unemployment, failure to meet the Coolidge naval limitations proposals, and inability to wriggle out of paying what the Empire owes the U. S. Throughout his speech Mr. Lloyd George never once suggested that he might win a partial victory-i. e., enough seats to put him at the head of a coalition Cabinet-'but thundered and boasted that the triumph of Liberalism would be sweeping and complete. Since there are today a mere 40 Liberals among the 615 members of the House of Commons, and since the Liberals...