Word: partiality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This group of men will have the job of deciding on a final and definite stand for Brooks House to take. They will have the benefit of at least the partial findings of the special committee...
...argument with him, declared the A. F. of L. keenly disappointed that the minimum wage of the code was 25? an hour. One kick Mr. Green could not make: that S. Clay Williams, as head of NIRB and erstwhile president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., had been partial to his former industry. The President announced that Mr. Williams had no part in making the code...
...ground at full flying speed, switches on, throttles open, stabilizer set for cruising, landing gear retracted. The gasoline fire which consumed most of the plane destroyed most of the evidence. But tools and other metal parts untouched by the flames showed marks of extreme local heat and partial melting. And the bodies of six victims found outside the machine, likewise untouched by flames, showed typical electrical burns on all parts in contact with the plane's metallic chairs. Said KLM's report: "The experts came to the conclusion that the machine had been struck by a heavy flash...
...true meaning of virtue was made manifest in a blaze of light when he received his corrected History 1 midyear. To the bottom of the essay question, which had been crossed and checked and scribbled over by the mentor, was appended the following generous award: "One point for partial neatness...
Died, John Muir, 87, Manhattan stock broker, pioneer specialist in "odd lot" sales (less than 100 shares) of securities; in Flushing, N. Y. Called the "Odd Lot King," Broker Muir was an early advocate of "baby bonds," of the partial payment plan which the U. S. Government adopted in selling Liberty Bonds...