Word: partially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There will be a radio debate with Oxford some time in February. Besides this one, the dates of the various debates next spring, according to a tentative and partial schedule as drawn up by Irving Murray '36, Secretary of the Debating Council...
...upon the young, forcing them to accept destiny instead of fighting it, the incessant pressure of conservative institutions such as home and the church, these are the ghosts which Ibsen is trying to lay. The technical and literary genius of his work was certainly a militant force in the partial defeat of these ghosts but in so struggling against concepts in a transitory form rather than basic realities he placed his work upon a transitory basis. We can still appreciate his skill, but we cannot hail him as of an age with us, Ibsen is now more of an historic...
Unless the anesthetist and surgeon take precautions, four out of five patients who undergo abdominal operations suffer partial collapse, wrote Dr. Henderson. Their respiration is shallow, their pulse rapid. In most cases this can be prevented if the surgeon "traumatizes as little as possible" and if the patient whiffs at carbon dioxide off & on for three or four hours after the operation. The carbon dioxide stimulates the lungs to breathe deeply, thus raises the body's general tone...
...policy pursued at Geneva. . . . The spectacular activities of Anthony Eden, Minister for League Affairs, may impress public opinion for a time, yet the Government know that the impression is unstable unless it is borne out by facts, which are not forthcoming. Therefore haste is imperative before the partial failure of the plan for collective security through Geneva stands revealed...
...partial vacuum of those pleural cavities the lungs expand and collapse, expand and collapse with each breath. Sometimes infection inflames the lining of a pleural cavity, causes an exudation which fills the cavity and leaves no space for the lung to expand. In such a case of pleurisy, the fluid has to be drained off through a hollow needle carefully pushed in between a pair of ribs...