Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME'S "Man of the Week"-Donald Wills Douglas-was picked up by the writer beside the badly burned wreckage of a United Air Lines, Douglas-built "Mainliner" which crashed near Cleveland the night of May 24 with a loss of ten lives. This seems to me a rather extraordinary coincidence-a Douglas-built plane, TIME'S feature article on Douglas and the fact that a copy of TIME rode to disaster with this ill-fated group...
...British Amateur is the riskiest tournament in the world because, until the final 36, all matches are at 18 holes-which means that luck rather than skill has a large part in determining the winner. For U. S. players the chief hazards always are the wind (invariably a cross one), a course studded with thick gorse and tricky sand traps, greens that require a pitch-&-run shot rather than the backspin approach most U. S. golfers play. More serious than these natural hazards last week was the luck of the draw which placed the unseeded U. S. Walker Cuppers...
...founded in 1856. Mrs. Lincoln bought groceries there, and the store has been sending orders 'round to the White House ever since. The present proprietress is Mrs. Norvall Burchell, widow of the founder's son. She is proud of the store's historical role, rather sensitive, however, about current profits & losses. For Burchell's closes this week-due, Mrs. Burchell says, to chain store competition, not loss of Presidential patronage...
...Apley, it seems, has discovered that in addition to this Communist Hicks there are already two hunchbacks or rather albiuoes, on the Faculty. And he strongly protests their continuing in these positions...
...field of Engineering Sciences at Harvard does not attempt to compete with the ordinary four year technical school in giving the student a highly specialized vocational training. Rather it offers the student preparation in mathematics and the basic sciences of engineering, while giving him ample time to elect courses in other fields. The field had 107 concentrators last year...