Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...recognizes in the November Monthly, as contrasted with last year, a lighter and more graceful touch, sacrificing perforce something of robustness and broad appeal, much as would have been expected had the chief editorship passed to Mr. Nathan. The somewhat too numerous and too brief "items," written chiefly-vae victorious-by the editors, leave an impression of studied word painting with little that demands expression...
...Lieutenant-Governor by a majority estimated at least 40,000. The woman suffrage amendment in Massachusetts went down to defeat by 75,000 or more, the vote being about 2 to 1 against it. Suffrage was also defeated in Pennsylvania and New York state, although the margin was somewhat closer...
Practice this week will be somewhat lighter than usual, and the scrimmaging will probably be limited to two days...
With only three more days of hard practice before leaving for Princeton, the Harvard team is still in a somewhat crude stage of development. Many disappointments have been caused by what this year's eleven has failed to do, and a doubt, not ordinarily entertained so late in the season, remains in Harvard minds. Whether the obstacles still besetting the progress of the University eleven are insuperable will not be known until Saturday, when Harvard meets a worthy, perhaps a matchless foe in the team of the Nassau Tigers...
...even finer ear for rhythm, and should compensate for the absence of regularity of account and rhyme by still subtler musical' effects. What they give us is rather vague prose, spoiled by inversions. Mr. Denison's "Sonnet" has a good tenth line spoiled by an unmetrical eleventh, and is somewhat over-weighted by the simile in the octave. In his "Night Song," Mr. Sanger has an interesting theme, but does not keep quite close enough...