Word: partially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, probing the Power Committee's affairs, uncovered a state of war among its personnel that threatened its useful existence. Solicitor Russell and Accountant King charged that Secretary Bonner was partial to the power companies, that he was not enforcing the Federal Water Power Act against them. Secretary Bonner's defense was that Messrs. Russell & King were politically ambitious, that they tried to "persecute" utility companies and "try their cases in the news-papers...
...least a partial remedy for this would be the assignment of a thesis, optional if need be, that would be equal with the examination in determining the final grade. Surely slow, careful thought, extending over some period of time, should be considered as important as the hurried, fragmentary lottings of an examination. Only in a thesis can the mass of detail that is bound to accumulate be properly considered and used to best advantage. And, most important of all, it is only in a thesis that a student can do more than throw back the lectures and the reading. (Name...
...King?still partial to General Berenguer?made him Chief of the Casa Militar (Royal Military Household ). Many believe that the wily General managed in this intimate post to sow suspicion, then hate, between King and Dictator. The seed has been four years in sprouting ?and economic factors have been at least as potent as intrigue...
...sitting with drawn lips, like men playing cards, trying to see how much power they may keep and what advantage they may gain? . . . When we get really civilized it will be much quieter. There will be no place for oratory. All noise is a symbol of imperfection, of partial accomplishment...
...peace was only partial. Scarcely had last week's train completed its run than all the Chinese employes of the C. E. R. went on strike, claiming that vigorous Comrade Rudy had unjustifiably discharged 300 Chinese machinists. In Nanking, officials of the Nationalist Government examined minutely the wording of the Khabarovsk Treaty, started angrily at the number of concessions to Russia to which abject Manchurians had agreed announced that they would not ratify the Chino-Soviet Treaty, summoned placid Mr. Mo for a good talking...