Word: somehows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loses no opportunity to remind his readers of his special merits, Pound has been an important force in Anglo-American literature. His innovations have been genuine improvements in the technique of poetry; by virtue of them, he has exerted a profound influence on several contemporary poets. He has managed somehow to be in the forefront of every revolt from tradition which has not been revolting in every sense of the word...
...business and those who have been hanging on, hoping some miracle would happen by which they would get a larger and larger share of their competitors' volume. But with government aid it will mean that arbitrarily the amount of volume will be allocated so that the total will somehow be more widely distributed...
Last week U. S. Science took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and struck back at the popular charge that its inventions and labor-saving devices were largely responsible for Depression. Millions of jobless felt that, somehow, they would be at work today if Science had not replaced them with machines. Wiser men discussed the possibility of a research holiday, to give economics a chance to catch up with Science. "Science and engineering will destroy themselves and the civilization of which they are a part unless there is built up a consciousness which is real and definite in meeting...
...York." After listening to Lawyer Rubin's solemn summation, the jury goes off-stage to bring Playwright Wexley's last curtain down with a burst of obscenely scornful laughter. A better playwright than most polemists, Playwright Wexley lost his temper in They Shall Not Die. Yet somehow his journalistic vehemence does not ruin his play. Handsomely mounted by the Theatre Guild and fervently acted by an enormous cast, it succeeds in its purpose to arouse opinions and emotions on a controversial subject...
...Censorship makes producers and directors dishonest. You cannot say that a man and a woman are having an affair. Somehow by hints and insinuations you have to get around this, and as a result you get something emasculated...