Word: partially
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Club's previous policy was to allow women "signing privileges" or a partial membership if they were related to a Club member or if they belonged to the Radcliffe Club...
...collects the guano for fertilizer that the nitrogen-and phosphate-rich material is eventually returned to the "biological cycle in the form of plant nutrient." Guano is not the only example of nature's garbage. Peat, coal and even oil are all organic materials that have undergone only partial decomposition. Paradoxically, Dubos added, when man burns these fuels (and pollutes the atmosphere) he also helps complete nature's unfinished cycle, "because he thereby makes the carbon and minerals of these fuels once more available for plant growth...
...took a dramatic "walk" in space as his ship circled the earth. But most of the shots taken of Cernan by his fellow astronaut Tom Stafford were lost when a film pack accidently floated out of the open hatch and disappeared in space. Only one spacewalk picture-showing a partial view of Cernan-was returned to earth. That made Cernan more determined than ever to come home with a superior and complete photographic record of Apollo...
...Partial color blindness, a genetic defect that affects over 8,000,000 Americans, is an incurable affliction. But for those who suffer from the most common form of the disease-the inability to distinguish between reds and greens-a Waltham, Mass., optometrist named Harry Zeltzer now offers some relief. He has found that a red contact lens, designed to be worn on only one eye, improves color discrimination. Zeltzer and other optometrists have prescribed the new lens for some 50 men, most of whom report that they can now distinguish colors they have never before seen...
...Lake, Wis., for $115,000. For a bit more, the Bahamas' entire Whale Cay, complete with mansion and matching village can be acquired: 650 acres, 20 minutes by plane from downtown Nassau, seven white-sand beaches, and all priced to sell at $3,500,000. Is the purchaser partial to antiques? He can live in one (when he is not in his Breuer building). A restored castle near the Loire is a franc bargain...