Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Horween gave his football charges a day of light work yesterday. The entire squad was somewhat shaken up by Monday's scrimmage, the hardest of the year, and seemed to require a respite from contact work before continuing the serious business of preparing to repuise the New Hampshire invasion of Saturday. Scrimmaging will again be on the program today, however...
...permanent place in this position: The sooner such a permanent incumbent on be found the better, for the supply of possible candidates for such a place is strictly limited as the difficulty of annually finding men for the Norton chair has shown. And it is only through a somewhat continuous exertion of their influence that even the greatest of men may make their mark upon any intellectual community...
...spoke long and wittily at the 40th anniversary banquet of the British Printers' Union, and to him listened a colleague - Rt. Hon. Frederick Owen Roberts, Minister of Pensions. When it came time for Minister Roberts to match the earthy eloquence of the Lord Privy Seal, he arose, a somewhat pitiful sight, embarrassed, blushing, twitching at his jacket and ruffling his hair. Finally, he collapsed beneath the table, then suddenly uprose again and in his hand was a fiddle. Upon this fiddle he bent his bow and fiddled out such tunes as "Loch Lomon" and "My Old Kentucky Home...
...announced last Spring, the Hound and Horn changes its policy somewhat with the October-December issue.. The "Harvard Miscellany" has been dropped from the title because it misrepresented the intention of the editors. The fact that Harvard men have hitherto been the principal contributors and the subjects of many of the articles has not been intentional, but rather a matter of geography and accessibility...
...rise of professional tennis which has been so noticeable for the past two years seems somewhat out of accord with the decline of pro sports in general. We now have two pro tennis players who are considered to be on a par with the cream of the amateur group in Karel Kozeluh, the Czech wonder, and Vincent Richards, formerly of amateur fame in this country. These two recently engaged in a match which according to eye witnesses produced tennis of a far higher brand than the Tilden-Hunter final of the national singles championship held within the last few weeks...