Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...number of students who registered at the University Thursday was 2,502, which is 500 in excess of the preliminary estimate. Registration will be continued for a few days; and it is expected that this number will be somewhat increased, as many former students have not yet been released from the service. The final registration figures will be ready by the end of next week...
...consider and put into practice a more rational means of settling international disputes than by the accustomed resort to arms. To the intellectually timid this seems such a daring and impetuous leap from the secure confines of precedent, over the chasm of unfathomable disaster, to the safe but somewhat precarious region of a new and better international life, that they lose no opportunity to be-little its advantages and magnify its difficulties. Such men are utterly out of tune with the age in which they live; in their minds they are living in the day when "might took the place...
...purely emergency measure, should be returned to their owners with due compensation. But in the case of various public service monopolies which are now operated by the government as a means of insuring perfect coordination in the management of a widespread system the question of restoration calls for somewhat more deliberation...
...concentrated on the properties of dough, on the rising of dough, quality of bread as influenced by the presence of substitutes, of salts and the admixture of certain other substances. The results are mainly of a scientific character, but can be applied in case of need, so as to somewhat increase the amount of good bread produced from a given quantity of wheat. The disease of bread known as "rope" has also been studied. These experiments and their results are undoubtedly of the greatest value to the country, should occasion arise to get the greatest food value...
...back to where the assistant regimental adjutant was (somewhat behind the lines) after travelling over most of France, and spending a day each at Nancy and Paris. Then I found out that the Regiment was up at the front again, after only about three days of rest. So I started off after them; and finally, after riding all day on food transports, etc., got back to my company. They were camped on the reverse slope of a hill near the Vesle, in a regular inferno of noise, for there were batteries and batteries of guns on all sides as well...