Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...sting of this defeat was somewhat mitigated by the victory over Colgate, 23 to 0 the following Saturday. A new star, Walter Camp, Jr., appeared and played with a speed and dash that worked havoc in the Colgate team; time and again he went around end, while many of his punts were over 50 yards. The victory was the more encouraging because the team played without the services of Captain Howe, Ketcham or Philbin...
Last winter Miss Maude Adams and sundry collaborators made a mosaic of various passages -- now coherent and now disjointed--from Rostand's celebrated play, "Chantecler", and set them on the stage as a pretty, if somewhat tenuous and tedious fantasia. She is now bearing this amiable little entertainment up and down the country and last evening it was to be seen on the stage of the Hollis Street Theatre...
...after all is said and done, what made the people flock to the theatre last night, what made them flock to a certain Metropolitan theatre last season, was not the show. It was not even Mr. Cawthorne, amusing as he is in a part of somewhat conventional vulgarity. The attraction was Miss Janis...
...Carlisle team has been trained by Coach Warner to play a shifting game and to meet a varied attack. The team has been somewhat weakened by the loss of Captain Burd, who is out of the game for the season; and by an injury to Thorpe, the star left halfback, who has been unable to punt for the last few weeks. The latter's punts averaged nearly 60 yards, so that it can easily be seen what his injury has cost the team. But allowing for these losses the Carlisle line-up will be one of the strongest and best...
...which is trite, another obscure, and still another juvenile, is an excellent number. Mr. J. D. Adams's account of the Irish dramatic movement is a capable and finished essay of which any literary magazine might be proud, Mr. Britten's "The Smartness of Mr. Warden" is somewhat talky, but readable and clever, and Mr. Skinner's anecdote "The Substitute" is interesting and vivid. The editorials are able and to the point...