Word: partials
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newshawk John L. Spivak set out last year to peek under the lids of Europe's dictatorships. He had a glowing reputation as "America's greatest reporter" based on his books, Georgia Nigger and America Faces the Barricades. Partial to underdogs, he paid calls on Italy, Germany, Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia over a period of five months. Despite radical bias and E. Phillips Oppenheim sensationalism, his findings, published last week as Europe Under The Terror,* gave U. S. readers a good chance to size up both Europe's tyrants and the people they tyrannize...
...British Government been partial to the Jews in Palestine. With taxes paid by Jews, Arabs were furnished schools and hospitals and other advantages, while the Jews had to finance their own schools and hospitals-in other words were doubly taxed...
...ornamental mantel vase, urn or basin" suspended close to the ceiling by chains. Immediately above the ice a hole was made in the ceiling. Into this was fitted a pipe which led through the floor above to the chimney. Air contracting around the cold ice created a partial vacuum which sucked outside air from the chimney. This blew over the ice, spilled down around the room, cooled the patient's fever...
...petty favoritism. The number of instructors in a single department is far too large to cull effectively those students who will most agreeably present their cases. And the liberal number of men consulted by the "Crimson," ranging from ten to fifteen, surely ought not to be based or partial on masse...
...handsome. New Hampshire-born of his family's eighth generation in this country, he went early to work for Harris, Forbes & Co., became its president in 1930. Now out of investment banking, he takes up his time with golf, directorships, an occasional reorganization, lays the blame for his partial leisure upon the SEC and "a man named Roosevelt...