Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like it) as he always did. Groucho gets away with jokes like this as only he can: "I don't like little Junior's crossing the railroad track; in fact I don't like little Junior at all." Chico gets into an argument with Groucho which, poorly paraphrased, runs somewhat as follows: (they're looking for a stolen picture) G.--I think it must be in the next room, according to this plan. C.--I guess you're right we'll look there first. G.--But what if there isn't any next room? C.--That's easy...
...prevented progress beyond a some-what insubstantial looking little brick wall. Of the ultimate appearance of either building the great mass of Harvard men know nothing. The difficulties confronting the completion of the one unit have served to prevent the release of information regarding the other. This situation is somewhat hard to explain on any grounds other than the usual promptness of the University authorities to snatch at any consideration which will appear to excuse them from the obligation of releasing perfectly legitimately desired information...
Important as are the benefits which the school will receive from the model court room, the enlarged library with its immense reading room, and from the relief which new offices and class rooms will give to overcrowding, important as these material gains undoubtedly are, they seem somewhat overshadowed in the realization that is suggested this morning of the increasingly strong influence of the Law School on national life...
...every good bank come many sound investing opportunities which must be refused because of legal restrictions. So, in order to widen their operating field, most large banks have investment affiliates, somewhat less conservative than the banks themselves. Step Three in the employment of currency would obviously be for the bank to organize an investment trust, and that is what Chicago's Continental-Illinois Bank Trust Co., largest U. S. bank outside Manhattan, did last week. President was Arthur Reynolds, who is board chairman of Continental-Illinois. Vice-president was James R. Leavell, also a Continental-Illinois vice president...
...perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot: The squadron taking off at dawn in pursuit of the Nicaraguan...