Word: partially
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Skeleton in the Alphabet. Possibly be cause of the partial paralysis, Corinth's brushstroke took on a slashing angularity, his colors a staccato spectrum. He studied his own face in 50 oils and 60 etchings; none bear the mark of flat tery, and many show a skeleton looking over his shoulder. His moodiness could only be broken by his wife, Charlotte Berend, a painter 22 years younger than he, and he replied by painting her 81 times...
...happened on that September day in 1781. George III called it "a drawn battle." To Rear Admiral Thomas Graves, who flubbed the encounter, it was "a lively skirmish"; to his second in command, Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Hood, "a feeble action"; to George Washington, its greatest beneficiary, "a partial engagement." There is not even agreement on its name. Says Author Larrabee: "You will find it called the Battle of the Chesapeake, of Chesapeake Bay, of Lynnhaven Bay, of Cape Henry, and of the Capes of Virginia." To this day not many Americans have heard of it. Yet the Battle...
...thirds of the world's gold is now held as monetary reserves, about $20 billion being legally tied down as partial backing for paper currencies; the remaining one-third is absorbed by industrial arts and private ownership. The U.S., with 446 million oz. of monetary gold, has by far the largest holdings. Next: West Germany (110 million oz.), France (91 million), Switzerland (81 million), Britain (71 million). As for Russia, how much gold the country holds has become such an international mystery that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency sniffed around, recently concluded that Russian monetary reserves must run about...
...school (Eastern prep division) which he has cast on other U.S. institutions-marriage and the law (By Love Possessed), the military establishment (Guard of Honor), the clergy (Men and Brethren), and medicine (The Last Adam). In the past, the animator has been an individual who, by partial dissent, has lifted the various strands of a society into a tension which made them as visible as struts in a Dymaxion dome...
Many kidney patients drag on for years with a partial but permanent loss of filtration efficiency, punctuated by occasional flare-ups of more severe failure. At such times, they need a special diet, with a little food several times a day, and not the hospital's usual three, widely spaced meals, said Dr. Becker. Ironically some of these patients are better off if they are not put to bed, but are kept on their feet...