Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...young lady had done the right thing. That was, while only to be expected of a really good reporter, somewhat significant. She had regained her feet, brushed herself off, proceeded to the Associated Press office and written her story before thinking of smelling salts or a hot water bottle. And the young lady was "somebody," too. So newspapers published the story of her accident, complete with homilies on reportorial disregard of self, and also her picture -pretty Mrs. William (Julia Davis) Adams, daughter of onetime presidential nominee John W. Davis...
...December 15, 1926, the Council published the first number of a photographic supplement entitled "The Yard". This supplement, which comprises four pages, is somewhat larger than the CRIMSON'S bi-weekly supplement, and gives a comprehensive survey of changes and progress in and about the University. It was sent to every living Harvard man, in number about 46,000. The Council plans to publish a second issue during the first week in February...
...Italy with the unification of Germany, and the life of Cavour with that of Bismarck. Until the middle of the last century Italy and Germany were, as has been well said, merely geographic expressions. How these "expressions" were made to apply to more than geography is a fascinating if somewhat unedifying story...
...flery heat of Berlioz, there is the cooler, less sensuous and more spiritual music of Debussy, exemplified this afternoon by two nocturnes. Debussy's work has always seemed to me, if I be pardoned for what may seem to some a grievous confusion of arts, to partake somewhat of the nature of pictures by Corot and some of the Impressionists. There is in them the same silvery quality of overtone, the same sort of shimmering airiness that is found in the paintings; an almost wraithlike quality with its appeal to the imagination combined with an emotional body of ever-shifting...
...from October to May; when clouds cover the sky almost continuously. Other points in Peru and Chile were visited, and Arequipa was on the whole found to be the only practical choice. for although a station at Pampa Central, on the desort of Altacama in Chile, seemed to possess somewhat better climatic conditions, the living conditions were practically impossible...