Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...relapse into a humming monotone, cheerful, although unintelligible. It is only at "the rockets' red glare, the bombs' bursting in air," that our patriotic choruses come out with full assurance again. That bit or warlike description has fixed in our memory where other things have faded. This speaks somewhat for the power of our associations with the 4th of July...
...misfortune is that, like some other good things, it is not exclusively our own. In England it is known as "God save the king." And in the tuneful land of Germany the words people sing to it are "Heil dir im Siegerkranz, Herrscher des Volkes ganz." It would be somewhat of a pity if at some patriotic gathering Americans doffed their hats to the pilgrim fathers, while our cousins of England began, prayers for the salvation of their king, and some well meaning although recent, patriot, burst forth with a paean to "Heil, Kaiser...
...three battalions of the former regiment, somewhat depleted by the loss of men who have already reported to the Government Reserve Officers' Training Corps, were amalgamated into two battalions, new officers being appointed to fill vacancies. In the morning the French officers inspected these companies at drill, but took no part in the instruction...
Unfortunately, all nations are not to be represented. German Socialists will be there. Austrian and Bulgarian and Turkish Socialists will be there. Also, most pampered of all delegations, Russian Socialists will be there, sent by the people's committee, whose opinions are somewhat dubious. There they will be greeted by their German and Austrian and Bulgarian and Turkish brothers-in-labor, although enemies-in-arms, and fraternize with them in the common love of that spirit of equality which transcends mere national politics. We might well send representatives from our own I. W. W. to add to the international gathering...
Those men who have had experience on farms which could, if used, increase the yield of our land have a just cause for going where their services are most wanted. We need in deadly earnestness food for our armies and the armies of our allies. But the cause is somewhat less just if those men whose only acquaintance with agriculture has consisted in cultivating a small-sized moustache or in cultivating unwilling acquaintances, seek that soil which they have never known. They will probably make excessively poor farmers. They might make, under a good top-sergeant, with good stiff work...