Word: partially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadiens. With two minutes to go, Forward Buddy O'Connor lashed in the winning goal. In Manhattan next night, Les Canadiens brought their local color along. While winning again and clinching first place, they engaged in Madison Square Garden's liveliest hockey riot in many a year (partial score: three misconduct penalties, an obstreperous fan's bald pate creased...
...inventor, a Washington (D.C.) nurse named Adda May Allen, got the idea while watching premature babies at Columbia Hospital. She observed that sucking on a bottle often exhausted her little patients. As a partial vacuum develops in the bottle, a baby sometimes has to fight a collapsed nipple. Nurse Allen decided that what was needed was a bottle with collapsible sides which would close on the vacuum as the milk was drawn...
...have such esthetic musical tastes." From the lips of Grace Lyons at McKenna's--and it could just as well have been heard at Briggs and Briggs--the phrase was a complaint. But just a little altered, it might by a shy boast of the Music Department, which rates partial credit for a most astounding revolution in Cantabridgian taste...
...Partial justification for Clement's gloom was to be found in preliminary rail earnings reports for January. They showed freight revenues up a whopping 21.2% over 1946; but a drop of 39.5% in passenger revenues pulled the roads' net increase down to an unimpressive 6.5%. Obviously, the industry's problem was to jack up passenger revenues...
...dust and old lemon peels "turned all conceivable shades of blue and green mold." Underneath a study table heaped with notes scrawled on brown paper bags, paste pots, unpaid bills and old quill pens sat an assortment of patient, sighing dogs-preponderantly Skye terriers, since Queen Victoria had been partial to Skyes. And since the dear Queen was whispered to have been partial to flannel underwear, garments of the best bluish-green Welsh flannel were generally draped over the study furniture and fireplace screen...