Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because of income tax interest was the U. S. involved in the Savarona's sale last week but rather because, in a transfer of a U. S. ship to foreign registry, the U. S. Maritime Commission must know to what purpose, whether bellicose or not, the ship is to be put. Two bids were made for the ship, one by the Turks, the other by an unnamed German. Although it appeared the German bid might win, the required information about the future use of the ship was not supplied. The Maritime Commission was thus able to presume that...
...large crowd which had gathered at the wharf to witness the dumping over of Japanese and German goods appeared rather disappointed at the affair, which turned out to be entirely for the benefit of the news cameramen on hand. As no one had bothered to procure bona fide foreign goods, empty boxes were used...
...guest speaker of the evening was Frederick P. Keppel, president of the Carnegie Corporation. Talking on the subject of "Foundations and Endowments, Major Industry," Keppel said that recent tendency in philanthropic work has been to find the cause and remedy for suffering rather than merely palliating it. This tendency is especially true of medicine...
...Blanchar and Harry Baur, the greatest cinema actors in France, names that will pack any theatre in Paris, all came to the Fine Arts yesterday in "Un Carnet de Bal," a picture worth seeing if only as an anthology of all that the French screen has to offer. Episodic, rather in the manner of "If I Had A Million," the picture takes a world-weary blonde (Mlle. Bell) in search of ten boys she had known in her youth. She had gone to her first ball, a card dance, when she was sixteen, and each of her partners with true...
Although athletics, especially house sports, attracted the greatest numbers, when it came to determining the most worthwhile activity the various publications were very nearly as popular. In other words, extra-curricular interest is certainly not limited to the sports or to the Houses, but rather, activity in writing, music, and charities have an equally important place in the greatly broadened field of extra-curricular work...