Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figures that may cause the more hopeful supporters of the Reading Period qualms of uneasiness. At the end of the first full year under the new system it was announced that the averages of the A, B, and high C, men were bettered and the lower grade men somewhat lowered. One would expect the proofs of the continuance of this tendency to be found in the Dean's List enrollment, for dealing as it does with a much smaller number it is more sensitive to changes affecting these upper strata of the student body than the more inclusive general rank...
...Asquith, 26, member of an English family which has already done much to entertain the U. S.* Few Asquiths, however, have used their wits as seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just to be near him. In spite of amateurish handling of details (pulled...
...Dohrmann. Head of the Dohrmann Commercial Co., coastwide merchants, is A. B. C. Dohrmann, onetime director in San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, present member of State Industrial Welfare Commission. Mr. Dohrmann has dabbled somewhat in motion-picture producing. He believes in short skirts, in efficiency for women...
...Baltimore & Ohio R. R. suggested a merger that would more than double its mileage and valuation. The Chesapeake & Ohio R. R. offered a plan that would link the somewhat scattered Van Sweringen holdings into a unified and expanded trunk system...
...York Central R. R. was rumored to have a merger in process of preparation; the Pennsylvania R. R. offered no plan but glowered at the other three. Details of the suggested mergers presented the reader with a somewhat forbidding assembly of names connected with "&'s," and listed such roads as the 45-mile Montour and the 13-mile Pittsburgh, Chartiers & Youghiogheny. The multiplicity of the branches obscured a clear view of their trunks...