Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Also, droplets are not invisible. I have seen, them often. Watch any person sneeze. . . you will see droplets. Perhaps the smaller ones can't be seen but enough can be seen to make the statement "invisible droplets" somewhat inaccurate...
Shrewd Mr. Mellon's lesson in rudimentary protectionists' economics ran somewhat as follows: "Now, U. S., do you know that you only make up a little over 6% of the world's population, and yet you are so industrious that you consume between 37% and 75% of the world's production of coal, iron, copper, rubber, petroleum and many another commodity? The reason for this phenomenon is simple. Your industries which manufacture competitive products are protected by the tariff. Hence your labor is kept busy, your standard of living is high and you can buy from...
Fifty per cent of the funds so obtained will go to a somewhat nebulous U. S. charity, the Mothers' Memorial Foundation. The remaining 50% will go to the ballet of Mile. Fuller, who originally attracted the notice and reputedly the friendship of Queen Marie by journeying to Rumania and producing there the Queen's several fairy tale dramas...
...college publication is one of those things which the average reader somewhat inevitably views with a certain amount of suspicion the chances are against his being interested in the outpourings of undergraduates or the freshness of "young thought." He feels, perhaps, that he is getting into something a little aesthetic or sophomoric or otherwise disconcerting when he opens its pages, and that if he is going to read something it would perhaps be better to lose himself in the standard graces of "The Saturday Evening Post." The reviewer, as a matter of fact, approached the flaming, covers of the Advocate...
...Pennsylvania, as is well-known, immense sums were spent in the last primary by the Candidates, although it is of interest to note that the greatest sum expended failed to obtain the election. In Illinois a somewhat different slant was given to the matter, since the expenses of the two opposing candidates came from the same source, that is, the so-called erection interests. In this way, whoever won the election, the traction interests, so to speak, came...