Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Even the German delegation was declared to have tacitly endorsed this principle, last week, as a result of repeated personal conferences between Manhattan's sociable yet determined Owen D. Young and Berlin's somewhat brusque and offish Dr. Hjalmar Schacht-he who only last fortnight embroiled the committee by suggesting that its august proceedings amounted to "shady horse-trading...
Jenkins Television Corp. was announced last winter (TIME, Dec. 17), as a $10,000,000 company with Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr. as a director. Last week it reported on its first four months of corporate life. Scanners of its balance sheet were somewhat puzzled to account for the ten million dollar estimate of size. The company had $186,000 cash on hand and in banks, $350,000 in the call loan market, some $78,000 in fixed assets. Of its $9,509,866.44 total assets, no less than $8,892,604.89 consisted of book value of patents and patent...
...participation in the rail cartel would be chiefly the official recognition of a working agreement which has for some time existed between U. S. railmakers and cartel members. U. S. industry on the whole has been somewhat wary about joining cartels, fearing prosecution under anti-trust laws. But the government is much more broad-minded concerning what U. S. industry may do abroad than concerning what it may do at home and one obvious method of meeting cartel competition is to become a cartel member...
...must give up a position once unique and enter into competition with the annual plays, definitely billed as "shows", of the Hasty Pudding and the Pi Eta Clubs. They have filled adequately in the past the place of light stagecraft at Harvard; the Dramatic Club is becoming a somewhat superfluous third person in the present company...
Scientific boxing was somewhat absent from the trials of the annual University tournament which were held last night; but all the contestants went at each other with murder in their eyes, and all in all furnished some exciting three-round bouts which kept the gallery of 300 people in a constant uproar. Seven matches were staged; the winners, together with those who drew byes yesterday, will square off in the finals on Thursday to decide the championships...