Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Herr Kreuger is a rather slight man with a large, somewhat bald head, a high forehead and prominent cheekbones. He is a great admirer of Cecil Rhodes and Dr. Jameson. He would rather be called engineer than chief or president. He has a motor boat, three yachts, six or seven homes, but has no particular hobbies, seldom accepts invitations to dinner, and even in Stockholm has become rather a legendary figure. Over the door of his office is a carved torch. In addition to his office, he has also a silent room, to which only he and the janitor have...
...Walt Whitman the Magnificent Idler, Biographer Rogers now finds his pen cluttered at every turn with a man whose short, quick-tempered life-rhythm was the polar opposite of Old Walt's. Cyrano's nose was "long, high-bridged, and bony, curved like a Moorish sword-blade, somewhat cleft at the extremity, and immensely arrogant." Believing the world mocked at his appendage, Cyrano began making diligent study of the art of the sword. He became a fiendish practicer among the Musketeers and Cardinals' Guards, and did not take up quieter study until, wounded, aged 24, he turned...
...gregarious' than Yale men. Commenting on a certain student from a standard Boston family, he said, 'He appears to be the possessor of but two adjectives, "bully" and "rotten."' When I asked him about X's Class Day oration, he answered, 'Robust commonplace.' Of a graduate who had written somewhat irresponsibly about Harvard, he observed, 'He is not a scientific person.' Of the place to which women were relegated when waiting for books in the University Library, he said, 'A pen is provided for them...
...undertaken until the third year of law work. The duty of the Student Advisory Committee is to see that all arguments are well handled; to spend most of its time giving advice to first year men, especially with regard to the mechanics of construction of briefs, and somewhat concerning the content of the briefs...
When Dartmouth arrives in Cambridge again this week-end, conditions will to all intents and purposes be much the same as they were last year. The Big Green outfit will be essentially untried, and consequently probably somewhat overrated; the Crimson will be conceded to have lots of power, but there will still be some who won't be quite sure where it will lead to. And there won't be one out of a hundred who will dare to make anything like a positive prediction about the outcome of the Stadium clash...