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Word: partiality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity soccer team suffered a crushing blow to its Ivy League hopes and then got a partial reprieve this weekend. An inspired Princeton eleven whipped the Crimson 1 to 0, in cold, rainy weather here Saturday, but Penn tied Yale to keep the varsity's chances alive...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Bows, 1-0, On Last-Quarter Princeton Tally | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...tall as the rest of the building. The building has been built in three separate stages: the as-yet undated early stage, the late Roman stage and the Byzantine stage, part of which had always been visible. The infuriating quality of "CG" is that it gets taller and taller. Partial excavation reveals two levels supported by a third. Flooding prevents a definitive look at this third level to ascertain if indeed the foundation doesn't lie further below. At the present moment, "CG" stands at about 43 feet tall...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Harvard Professor Directs Excavations To Unearth Important Relics at Sardis | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...partial truth of each of these stereotypes is easily recognizable even to the casual visitor, but only one of these generalizations seems to gain the unanimous recognition of faculty and students: Sarah Lawrence is devoted to the individual, and individualism is its most cherished attribute...

Author: By John C. Grosz, | Title: Sarah Lawrence: Experiment in Individualism | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

Reed Army Hospital for treatment for partial paralysis, went visiting a young lady friend in Cairo. She is Nahed Hassanein, 4, daughter of a Cairo lawyer and rumored to be the young prince's intended bride. No one could say that it was love; Nahed seemed more taken by a toy animal that Mashhur brought her than by the prince himself. In any event, the tots have plenty of time to get to know each other: if they do marry, it will not be for years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...their Oriental cousins. During an epidemic of Western equine in Utah last year, 47 cases were reported, but only one victim died. Eastern equine is more virulent: those who survive the brain congestion and the raging temperatures (up to 110° before death) often suffer some mental impairment or partial paralysis. The one mitigating factor is that the disease, though common among animals in the eastern U.S., Canada and South America, rarely attacks man. New Jersey had never reported a case of encephalitis before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: EEE on the Loose? | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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