Word: partially
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...under his arm. He was looking for someone to try his latest invention-"a resistance eliminator, or anti-drag fan." Inventor Perry showed it: a 12-in. steel disc equipped with four scoop-like blades to be affixed to the spinner (hub) of an airplane propeller. "It makes a partial vacuum in front of the propeller," he explained. "It bores through the air. I got the idea five years ago from a posthole borer on my farm." Most pilots snickered, but good-natured Pilot Frank Steinman attached the device to the prop of his OX-Waco. went aloft. Few minutes...
According to an announcement made yesterday the Harvard Lampoon fall competition for the Literary and Business Boards has been brought to a partial conclusion with the nomination of four candidates for election. The following are the nominees, all for the Business Board: Bradford Bachrach '33. Charles Sheafe '33, B. P. Rogers, G. B. Van Ness...
Cinema audiences in Italy must endure constant playing of Fascist anthems. Few pictures are released without classical titles. One announced in Rome as The Odyssey of Charlie Chaplin turned out to be the original Paramount, Tillie's Punctured Romance. Though Italians are partial to German imports, an observer for Cinema reports that when Emil Jannings in Othello was shown at the Royal Opera in Florence, at one performance the audience consisted of six people...
...sold by the merchants in the city or town in which the employe resides. Each employe shall be given a receipt for his expenditures and shall turn that receipt over to his employer. The money may not be used to pay debts, nor may it be used as a partial payment on merchandise. I believe that prosperity depends, to a large extent, upon the circulation of money, and claims have been made that salaried people whose earnings are as great as they were a year ago are not at present spending as liberally as heretofore. The failure of the salaried...
...France in "Uncle Arthur's" speech. Of course France favors Disarmament, he smoothly observed, pointed to a passage in his own speech preceding Mr. Henderson's. He had said that Security must precede Disarmament, added that France has "notably reduced" her armaments on the basis of the partial security, she has already achieved, concluded loudly...