Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once meeting a professor he admires or shaking hands with President Conant, it is his fault--to be blamed upon his lack of initiative. Going halfway with teacher, adviser, and dean is the obligation of each Freshman. Likewise, it is his duty to be useful in college, by contributing somehow to its life; particularly does it fall upon him to develop a practical social philosophy which will anchor his outlook on the modern world and make his knowledge beneficial to the community he will later join...
Black, barrelhouse cabaret singers were not long in converting Frankie's exploit into a torchy part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion...
...President's next press conference, however, the Splawn report had somehow become general knowledge. Its 60 pages offer both immediate remedies anda long-range program to pull the roads out of the deepest ditch in their history...
...procedure but sometimes of his scale: the expanse of paper or canvas being imagined as a field of any dimension up to, and possibly including, infinity. It is Perambulator Klee's frequent achievement not only to imagine such a field for himself but to open it up somehow to the spectator. One water color in last week's show, Bird, Ph Feeds Ur with the Snake, at first sight only a delicately smoky paper with a tangle of lines in the centre, suggested a cosmic twilight and the chaotic, prehistoric figures of monsters. In another kind of shorthand...
Commissioner Walker's 1,100 pages of indictment and proposals are the result of three years' investigation. They would still be the Commission's secret had not the Commission learned that communication circles had somehow "tapped its wires." Rather than give A. T. & T. a chance to prepare a counterpunch while FCC studied the report, lively little Chairman Frank R. McNinch decided to make Commissioner Walker's findings public at once. But he specifically told Congress that it "is not a report by the Commission, but is instead a report submitted to the Commission...