Word: partially
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...today a University-wide hygiene program cares for all the student's physical and mental ills, makes sure he doesn't succumb to food poisoning, and has embarked on extensive research into preventive medicine. Five selfless and foresighted men get partial credit for the phenomenal rise of this much-needed department. But the large part of its development was spontaneous, created by the increasing needs of the Harvard community. An enlarged student body, a new type of student, and the pressures of society which the University began to reflect brought the Hygiene Department to its present state...
...Gospel. "How tragic it would be," said U.S. Rubber's President H. E. (for Harry Elmer) Humphreys Jr.,* "if the next Administration were to be as partial to business as the present one has been to labor. How tragic it would be if the N.A.M. should ever feel that its mission is to speak only for manufacturers. We must speak . . . for all men. For our power to succeed in serving our customers better will depend on their power to act as free individuals...
...Partial Agreement...
Although the group put forth a number of counter proposals, at the end it did manage to come to a partial agreement. Eleven members joined in supporting a modified plan put forth by Phillipe Villers '55, representative from the Liberal Union...
...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...