Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Weems's Life of Washington, and a history of the United States, for reading; a wooden fire shovel scraped clean and a coal for writing materials, enabled his eager intelligence to make a better start than many a more favored boy achieves in the best schools. And after a somewhat florid period of youth, his style of writing and speaking became extraordinarily simple and impressive. Lincoln's practice as a country lawyer, his repeated terms in the Legislature of Illinois and even his three years in Congress brought him little reputation; but all these experiences of course were unconscious preparation...
Macmillan and Co. have in press a volume of "Studies in Judaism," by Mr. S. Shechter, Reader in Rabbinic in the University of Cambridge, which deal in a scholarly manner with many somewhat obscure topics in connection with the Jewish faith...
...arrangement has been made at Cornell by which the stroke of the crew men can be tested. It is a steam indicator from the laboratory of Sibley college and arranged by simple devices to work under somewhat changed conditions. The indicator is placed in position on the rowing machine and connected with the oar handles by a cord, the record being marked on a chart, as in the case of a steam engine test. It is possible to determine the length of each man's stroke, how strong an oar he pulls. and at what point of the stroke...
...subject. But whether it is a good thing to reduce the age of these entering classes below eighteen is an open question and there are many and strong arguments against doing so. To begin with, a man gets more good from a university education if he is somewhat matured when he enters. He takes life more seriously than the boy of seventeen. He feels the obligations that he is under, and he approaches his work with earnestness of purpose, and is quick to see and take advantage of his opportunities. It is useless to expect an attitude of this kind...
Yesterday afternoon the freshman crew received somewhat of a shaking up. Thomson and Donald, who have of late been rowing at six and five respectively, were transferred from the first crew to the second. Much dependance was at first placed upon these two men. Thomson has been unable to follow the stroke of any one in front of him and Donald's stroke has proved to be woefully inadequate and weak in comparison with the size and length of his body. Donald's place was taken by Perkins and Thomson's by McDuffy. In the bow of the boat...