Word: partially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depression, the number of the unemployed mounted to unprecedented heights. Often the average was more than ten million; at times a peak was attained of 16 million or more. Disaster to the breadwinner meant disaster to dependents. Accordingly the roll of the unemployed, itself formidable enough, was only a partial roll of the destitute or needy. The fact developed quickly that the States were unable to give the requisite relief. The problem had become national in area and dimensions. ... It is too late today for the argument to be heard with tolerance that in a crisis so extreme...
Three More Blows. If the President's aim was to get conservative oldsters off the Court, the Van Devanter retirement was a partial success, but there were reasons for believing that his chit from the Justice gave a sour taste to his breakfast. Every President in his second term finds it difficult to control Congress, and by forcing Congress to pass his Court bill, he could have shown Congressmen that he still had the upper hand. Usually a master of compromise, he had refused all compromise on the Court issue as if determined to force a showdown...
...April 12 issue, TIME published a letter from Mr. B. Palmer Lewis representing the Christian Science Committee on Publication for the State of New York, in which he quoted a statement from Mr. Howard Chandler Christy testifying that, after partial blindness, Mr. Christy's sight was restored 28 years ago through Christian Science...
...week's end the court of inquiry had decided that busmen should have slower schedules, had not decided about the 7½-hour day. The busmen, however, agreed to vote on these partial findings and Londoners did not despair of being able to bus to the Coronation...
President Conant has asked a committee of the faculty to draw up a list of suitable books from which "a partial mastery of ...(the field) can be obtained by systematic reading during term time and vacations." An examination of a purely voluntary nature would be given every fall and high ranking students would receive a substantial monetary award or a certificate upon graduation. Detailed plans have not been worked out whereby the work would be rewarded which President Conant sees as so desirable for the college graduate, but that is expected upon the publication of the report by the committee...