Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seriously at Cambridge as it seems to be at New Haven, but the small college plan discussed last year is an indication that the question of unwieldy size is not to be disregarded. There are few people today who would deny that the advantages of large scale production are somewhat dubious in the economics of education...
Next year, in accordance with the recent decision of the English Department to allow all Freshmen getting 70 per cent or higher in their Comprehensive English examination to omit English A, the enrollment of the course will be diminished by more than one third. This will undoubtedly somewhat change the nature of the course...
...instructions, were gripped by despair, saw the five-year prison terms and $10,000 fines provided in Section 28 of the Instructions for false or delayed returns, staring them in the face. Most will not find the burden overheavy The $30 a week clerk will find his contribution somewhat less than a dollar; married bricklayers or newspaper correspondents with an income averaging $75 a week will pay between $5 and $6. But there will be some good-sized checks. For example, of his $100,000 of taxible income, the financier will pay approximately $16,000 to the government...
...Japanese musician. To the one Paul Claudel tried to describe the strange forms and shapes that stir in his mind. To the other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
...Preparatory Commission for a Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations meets to day to resume those discussions which last May proyed so fruitless as to warrant their long adjournment. Within the last week, France has made it only too clear that President Coolidge's somewhat ill-timed proposal can expect no Gallic support. And Russia still stands aloof on the edge of Europe, an inevitable bar to any effective disarmament in Europe...