Word: somewhat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unique bulbous bow." Every layman knows that air friction against a raindrop causes it to assume a bulbous foreshape and to taper off behind-this being the form which offers least resistance to the air. With daring originality, the Bremen's designers gave her below the water line somewhat the shape of a falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen include a street of arcaded shops; an all-night night club called The Astoria; and an optional Ritz Restaurant, where first class...
...potent steel companies, the following have announced 1929 earnings to date: Republic Iron & Steel Co. This Ohio company, with both William G. Mather, big-Cleveland-iron-man and Cyrus S. Eaton, big-Cleveland-steel-man, on its di rectorate, has made extraordinary progress during the past year. After a somewhat in-and-out period from 1923 through 1927, the company acquired Trumbull Steel Co. in February 1928. In April 1928 it got able Elmer T. McCleary to leave the vice-presidency of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. and become its president. Soon earnings began a steady climb...
...stories and articles (usually of feature or semi-feature character) which are prepared, written and set up by Western Newspaper Union staff. The country editor, low on news, simply takes as much of the boiler plate material as he needs to fill up his issue. Patent insides are somewhat different, pertaining to advertising, not to editorial content. The editor who patronizes a patent insides service is sent an entire newspaper With the first page blank but with many an advertisement printed on the inside pages. Then the editor runs the paper through his presses and prints local news...
...Hunky (short for "Hungarian" - colloquial for Slav) to U. S. citizen and worker, is obvious and anything but original. But it is done so cheerfully, so sincerely, with such brave and decent effort at realism, that it far transcends what might be banality. It is a warm, vigorous, if somewhat naïve book by a writer who has known and taken seriously all kinds and conditions of his fellow men. The Book-of-the-Month Club chose it for July...
...York Tribune (now Herald Tribune}. editor of Johnson Features, Inc., literary-critic of Arts & Decorations, editor of The Bookman. Last week the latest Rascoe position was announced-associate editor of Plain Talk, red-covered monthly (circulation 25,700) edited by Geoffrey Dell ("G. D.") Eaton in somewhat the manner of Henry Louis Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury (circulation...