Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution of the Newspaper Association is the first organized intercollegiate recognition of these purposes which all agree, lead to broader education. The implied commendation of these purposes and the substantial aid it is in the power of college journalism to give them, should raise them somewhat in the student mind from the ephemeral and purely idealistic to the real and attainable. The action comprises one step away from collegiate Babbitry...
...ladies drew near him, however, so Captain Frankau proceeded to relate a "joke" which connoisseurs present declared was both ancient, somewhat pointless and entirely offensive. In London, hearing this news and wondering how "that little writer chap" had ever been mistaken in the States for an official Conservative representative, Conservatives were irked...
...deposed the Sultan-Calif Mohammed VI and conferred the Califate upon his cousin, Prince Abdul Mejid. Subsequently (1924) it abolished the Califate and banished from Turkey all members of the House of Osman, which had ruled as Sultan and Calif since 1517. Thereupon King Husein of the Hejaz was somewhat irregularly "elected" Calif by his adherents, but abdicated as King in favor of his son Ali, who was subsequently conquered and deposed by Sultan Ibn Saud of Nejd. 2) None of these three disgruntled Califs possesses all three of the traditional qualifications: descent from Mohammed; the status of an independent...
There is a sort of humor, somewhat fantastic pleasantly inconsequential, of which the undergraduate is a past master. The Lampoon often indulges in it, we know, especially, it would seem late in May. Perhaps the Ibis has been well assuaged with strawberries, or has found the evenings along the Charles pleasing, in any case, his satire is not barbed and he passes by, smiling slightly, as if he realized how absurb college becomes before the June cataclysm...
Final arrangements for the races tomorrow were announced last night. W. E. Badger of Yale has been chosen as the referee. The times at which the various races are to be held have been changed somewhat, and now call for the Freshman contest, which is first in order, to begin at 5 o'clock. This will be followed by the Junior race at 5.45 o'clock, and the race between the University crews at 6.30 o'clock...