Word: partially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Bonifacio Yturbide was three, a severe illness left him permanently blind. But Bonifacio, the son of Basque immigrant parents, had a good mind and a strong will. As he grew up, he found that insight could be at least a partial substitute for sight. "One thing that some blind persons ... do is to withdraw within themselves. I don't agree with this," he decided. Instead, he dug in hard at school work and activities; in his senior year at Reno (Nev.) high school he made a straight-A record and was elected president of his class...
...fell into the sea between Daet and Manila; its crew of four and nine passengers perished. Suspecting that a bomb had been hidden in the plane, the Philippine National Bureau of Investigation last week picked up Gavino Largo, an escaped convict, and Amadeo Salazar, his friend. From their partial confessions the Bureau pieced together a grisly tale...
Rockefeller asked that the money be used toward the construction and partial endowment of a classroom building to be named in memory of his father-in-law. Senator Nelson W. Aldrich of Rhode Island, who died...
...character somewhere, but nothing ever quite happens to prove the point, one way or the other. In this, as in the effectively drawn picture of David Gerald in love, the book may be true to its time and place; the result, nonetheless, is of David Gerald in a partial vacuum...
...event is entitled the Harvard Outing Club's annual bike race, and though ten and one half miles is a considerable stretch of pavement, it still represents a return to partial sanity on the part of the Outing Club briantrust...