Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opened up. No longer will the undergraduate desirous of contributing to the fame of his college or of winning renown for himself be forced to direct his energies to athletic achievement or to be content with the vague assurance that in devoting himself assiduously to his studies he is somehow adding to the intellectual prestige of his Alma Mater and storing up future treasures for himself. It is Mrs. Putnam's intention that the scholar who aids his college to victory over a rival by writing an excellent competitive examination paper may feel that he is contributing as directly...
...sciences taught in Harvard College. If the force of conversions to the tutorial system may be said to be cumulative, this event yields place to two others; some ten years ago when the Department of History, Government and Economics presented the system to Harvard College, and that indefinite but somehow expectable day when the tutorial system and Harvard College may be linked without qualification or exception...
...rich husband and marry Owen Macdonald. When her son comes in to say that John Sands has been shot, the play breaks into a wild, inharmonious and exciting rhythm; its draughty madness is terrifying, not by virtue of black paws or of guns offstage but because it conveys somehow the impression that God has gone away, that the world is being run now by the cheerful, sardonic, hideous Furies...
...boyish-looking Hoover, almost cherubic in his smile, whose geniality looks contagious but is somehow so baffling that it is impossible to imagine his public ever calling him by his first name...
TIME cover was the only part of TIME that came to me this week. Somehow a Jewish paper was substituted in its place...