Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Fordham was defeated by the University baseball team yesterday afternoon by the score of 7 to 2. The most promising feature of the game was the timely batting of the University team. Hartford's pitching was somewhat steadier than in the Georgetown game. He struck out eleven men and allowed but four hits. Mahoney on the other hand was hit freely at critical moments. Most of the errors were due to poor throwing...
...arrayed in their academic costumes, the reason for the custom will disappear. The only way to carry out the tradition properly is for every man to consider it an honor to be thus distinguished from the rest of the College. If this is done, the class cannot help being somewhat more unified in the last few weeks of its College career...
...years' work in European hospitals. In 1838 he became Professor of Anatomy and Physiology in Dartmouth, and in 1847 was called to take the same chair in the Medical School, which position he held for thirty-five years. Dr. Holmes was not only a doctor, but a good photographer, somewhat of an artist, a far famed poet, wit, and man of letters. His works are familiar to all, the best known being "Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," "Elsie Venner," and many short poems...
Under the title of "The White Bear of Norway," Mr. H.G. Leach gives a somewhat journalese account of Bjornson and his struggle to form a national language in Norway. One can only hope that Mr. Leach is not a good reporter; according to him Bjornson admits that the rural speech he is trying to suppress is more beautiful than that of the cities, which he is trying to force on all, but maintains that the future of Norway, "like the future of all other nations, is to be industrial, and the language of industry is the language of the cities...
...Macgowan has a story of India, "In the Name of the Empire," which suggests Kipling in subject, but without the terse directness of Kipling's style. In "The Army of Unalterable Law" Mr. Pulsifer tries to show a larger principle in the universe; somewhat of the same nature is Mr. Follett's "Star-Wondering" in which he sets the stars to pondering the old question which the first thinking man proposed to himself, the question which played so large a part in the schemes of the early Greek physical philosophers--"What is this world about us?" Like Odysseus, Mr. Blythe...