Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...better or worse there is, in point of fact, something more to American college football than the enjoyment of sports-manship. Undergraduates really believe that to be strong and manly--and successful--in athletics reflects credit on their alma mater and that the credit of their alma mater is somehow worth while. As nowhere else in modern life, they learn obedience, discipline, fortitude. Among the "moral substitutes for war" demanded by William James intervarsity athletics should rank high. It would be sad, if, in revaluing college spirit, we destroyed...
From the peak of its prosperity symbolized by the erection of the new building, the CRIMSON, like the rest of the world, fell upon dark days. After the United States declared war in 1917, the University was turned completely topsyturvy, but somehow the CRIMSON managed to continue publication until the fall of 1918, when the very small number of men returning to college forced the suspension of publication on October...
...whole Government has a little business to do. But somehow it gets mixed up in politics, and then there is a fight and there are sensations, and frequently both of these lead to blunders. Perhaps the whole business of government could be efficiently carried on according to the formula of "doing a little business" quietly, but that is not how it commonly is under our system of government...
...harmlessly over many a German head. An instant later he dropped the glass, clutched at his side and fell dead. Lieutenant Colonel von Hoeruf, a staff officer, was wounded in the leg at the same moment. Aghast, Defense Minister Gessler and the military observers, realizing that the barrage had somehow fallen short, signaled frantically to the gunners to cease fire...
...reads people and writes books." He might well have added that she eats a hearty breakfast, loves children and dresses stylishly. So many magazine writers do the same. There is little or nothing to distinguish one from another, and the differences among their respective works are equally invisible. Yet somehow the great public discriminates, and the reception Mother got in 1911 marked Mrs. Norris as one of our elect. To her ability as a straightforward, reportorial storyteller, she seems to add a blend of sentiment that is highly popular. This story is about a large Irish-Catholic family...