Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assigned to tutors and not merely to advisers. The fact that the Houses are intended as educational units and not merely as residence halls makes this especially important. One of the most serious dangers to be avoided is that members of the teaching staff may come to look upon partial tutorial instruction as a perfunctory matter, an attitude which can have only undesirable effects upon the work which is done by the undergraduates...
...second place, the arrangements should be so flexible that a student who requires only partial tutorial instruction may, if he later decides that he wants to take advantage of the privilege of more intensive tutorial work and gives evidence of his ability and interest to profit from such work, be given the opportunity...
...kidnapping (TIME, Dec. 21) were thus merely reappearing last week in fresh forms. The central reality behind all was merely that China has approached a point at which her leaders are considering open war with Japan, and they know that no Chinese leader can make even a partial success of such a war without Communist support from two sources:1) Chinese Communists and 2) the Soviet Union...
...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...
Because the Federal Housing Administration is a partial guarantor of modernization loans made by banks under Title I of the National Housing Act, Mike Pecoraro's methods came under Federal scrutiny. His methods were simple. A short, smartly-dressed man with a police record as a forger and thief, Mike would walk into a branch of big National City or Manufacturers Trust, submit an FHA loan application signed by Otto Corneau (or one of 18 other names) with his right hand and the wife's name penned with his left. Then he returned to a rented apartment, waited...