Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...paper caused very great surprise. True, the sentences given were translations from the author read, but their selection was purely arbitrary, and to expect one to load the memory with even a quarter of the innumerable idiomatic constructions in Plautus were an evident absurdity. Is it not, too, a somewhat novel idea that a thorough understanding of a Latin author is measured by ability to render an English version into the original, or the original into Greek...
Some of my experiences last year were almost as bad. When I was told that my mark in German was forty-nine, I looked somewhat aghast, for I had written a first-rate paper. The instructor, noticing my horror, kindly offered to explain, and took me with him to the tutorial mansion. I was astonished to see the library-table covered with mathematical instruments, for he did not teach mathematics; the explanation soon came. He first showed me six trifling errors in my book; then he drew a circle with a radius of six inches, inscribed an equilateral triangle...
...evidently heard that the check system was to be introduced on Monday, and thought that he would make hay while the sun shone. We believe that two other overcoats have also been lost from the Library this year, besides innumerable hats and umbrellas. It would have been somewhat better, perhaps, to have locked the barn door before the horse was stolen, rather than after, but we can comfort ourselves with the assurance that there will be security in the future...
...mannerism, the style was simple and good; yet it may be seriously doubted whether such a dialogue as that in which the essay was written is well adapted to the treatment of such a subject. The "side-scenes" were irrelevant, to say the least, and the whole treatment was somewhat superficial; the subject was not exhausted...
...have to be abandoned if more than one race were attempted, for the difficulties of operating it on a single-track road are at best very great. Furthermore, the problem of police management might suddenly assume serious and disheartening proportions if the excursion steamers were allowed to discharge their somewhat miscellaneous crowds upon the little city...