Word: partially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their college work is as obvious as it is irrelevant. After four years, however, they will leave, socially unfitted, intellectually strained, and quite as far from the good life as they had been before. Possibly the professorial joy at a competent student is in the nature of a partial compensation; possibly the social Benents of a normal college life have been overestimated; but President Scott should be neither surprised nor shocked if his prodigies, a few years hence, are tempted to turn on him with holy anger and sweep his precious incubator to destruction...
...spent two uninterrupted years in steady accumulation and assimilation of the ground-work of the law. That process of laying the foundations is usually felt to be interesting though hard; but it is generally considered exceedingly irksome by the third year. A thesis course would furnish at least a partial vent to this feeling of heavy monotony...
Release of the pigeons signalled the climax of the ceremony. While Commander Dresel, his 50 officers & crew stood at salute, Erection Foreman V. W. ("Red") Coffelt ordered "Up ship!" His workmen slacked off their cables, let the Macon's partial load of helium buoy her into the air some five feet. Another command and she was hauled down again, made fast. The Navy's second airship scouting cruiser had taken the air. She will remain in the dock a few weeks more for finishing touches...
Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow of the University of Chicago Law School was appointed trustee of bankrupt Insull Utility Investments, Inc., after Calvin Fentress and William W. Wheelock had been disqualified by Judge Wilkerson because they were elected by the debenture holder's protective committee, supposedly partial to the Insulls. Dean Bigelow's feelings: "Begin at the bottom and work...
...three-way deal dominated the caucus from the start. Withdrawing from the major contest, Representative Byrns nominated Representative Rainey for Speaker after which Representative Rainey nominated Representative Byrns for majority leader. Tammany, always partial to a winner, swung its votes behind the Rainey-Byrns ticket in return for the appointment as assistant majority leader of stocky, hard-bitten Thomas Henry Cullen from the Red Hook district of Brooklyn. Jumping the South's traces, Texas joined the Rainey-Byrns-Cullen combination because its success would advance Representative James Paul Buchanan, a Texan, to the Appropriations Committee chairmanship vacated...