Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, however, the D. T. & I. flowers drooped slightly and the employes were somewhat perturbed. The big-lettered F O R D on D. T. & I. bridges was destined soon to disappear. Henry Ford, owner of the D. T. & I. had sold his property to an unannounced purchaser. Agent in the transaction was the firm of Charles D. Barney & Co., Manhattan brokers. Probable real purchaser was Pennroad Corp., Pennsylvania Railroad holding company. Whoever the new buyer, the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton's Ole Massa had certainly sold it down the river...
...Following my notification from Hon. Pasquale De Cioco, Royal Vice Consul of Italy, that H. M. Vittorio Emanuele had conferred upon the writer of this the Order of Knighthood in the Order of the Crown of Italy for his paintings of Rome, and being thereby (and not perhaps, unnaturally) somewhat overcome, I ventured to share the news with TIME. That you should ignore the matter "in toto" is perhaps not surprising, and it is, of course, quite within your rights, and your admirable magazine is, in the writer's estimation, none the worse for the omission. GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS...
...time when all scholastic success was measured by isolated course grades, this organization has continued on the ancient theory that what was good enough for our grandfathers is good enough for us. The present result of this policy has without question left the Phi Beta Kappa Society with a somewhat foolish grin on its scholarly features. After all, anyone who knows anything about what Harvard has of late years been trying to offer in the way of an education will know where to direct his smile when he sees a man stride across the platform to receive his degree with...
...will be well if those in charge of future elections have seen these smiles and realize that they express a somewhat tolerant amusement which is far more dangerous to an organization's prestige than any more intense feeling ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...
...While the first string oarsmen were taking things comparatively easily the other crews worked out over a longer course. Observers were impressed with the strength the University sweepswingers displayed rowing at a low beat. James Lawrence '29 seems to be ironing out the few little errors which have been somewhat of an impairment to his form and gives promise of giving a fine exhibition next week as pace setter for the Crimson eight...