Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of this government work has required planning for "specific and partial needs", Mr. Hubbard believes. "This may be unavoidable," he said, "but planning which is not comprehensive is often ineffective...
...tutoring school's real and legitimate usefulness is found in their supplying a "handle" to an examination and, for that matter, a course. And "handle" is merely another way of saying organization. The Union Committee's plan, at best supplies only a partial solution. Lecturers and instructors, at least in elementary courses, should also keep in mind at all times the necessity of giving some unity to their work, and should be prepared to give a lecture or so at the end of the course sketching, as far as possible, that unity...
...Sanctions, when organized in advance and consequently en masse, can prevent war. On the contrary the application of improvised Sanctions, that is partial and piecemeal Sanctions, may, by reason of their dubiousness, lead...
Unfortunately, however, the present course, being of only half a year's duration, leaves the would-be orator in a state of partial development, like an engine whose improperly adjusted cylinders permit it to function, but not to function to the best of its ability. Just at the time when the fundamentals have been fully comprehended and the student is prepared to go on to a study of the finer points of the art, the course comes to an end. It is my opinion, and I think that I reflect the opinion of most of the men in the course...
...partial scheme was tried last year in order that Freshmen might have a look at the Houses before they made their formal choices. The administrative difficulties were easily and effectively handled, since the difference in the meal rates--$8 and $8.50--amounted to only a slight bit over 2 cents per meal...