Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...represents the colossal vested interests of a score of banking and industrial trusts, it does not take long to sound out the opinions of ''big business." Therefore after only the briefest conference, "Iron Man" Hjalmar Schacht boarded the Nord Express for Paris, appearing to be, as usual, somewhat less gracious and communicative than a snapping turtle...
Fields. Speculative is stock in airplane companies; somewhat less speculative is stock in flying fields, since though companies may come and go, the flying field remains always necessary. So last week reasoned many an air-minded U.S. investor, offered stock in Roosevelt Field, Inc., at $18 a share. The new corporation plans to purchase in fee Roosevelt Field, L.I. (from which Col. Lindbergh made his Paris flight) and adjacent Curtiss Field, to supply hangars for planes and parking space and a restaurant for the general public...
While these steps have, if somewhat hesitatingly, been put forward on the part of the secondary schools, there still remains the barrier imposed by the college entrance examinations. And it is from the side of the colleges, it seems, that the next step in unifying the educational programs of the secondary and higher institutions of learning must come...
...difficult to interpret. Not only are no satisfactory data available with reference to the nominating process of those 'elected', but even less do we know about the circumstances of the election itself. True, the Times correspondent emphasized that there was no violence at the election; but it would be somewhat naive, to say the least, to assume that therefore the election was a fair one. Whether the ballots were exactly alike, and not distinguished from each other by colour or in some other way, whether people voted in the same booths for both candidates, these and similar "details...
...influence of their pens to the cause of Business" by writing what might vulgarly be termed an advertisement for Harrods. All three refused. But all three also wrote long letters explaining their position. Mr. Wells and Mr. Bennett virtually watered their refusals with their tears, Mr. Shaw seemed somewhat less tempted and some what less grieved...