Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...judicious weighing of the advantages and disadvantages of various attempts to control what all fair minded persons acknowledge to be at the present time a great evil. Every civilized country is trying by one method or another or control the evil of drink. We are trying a somewhat more drastic experiment than any other. It is really the greatest social experiment of modern times and deserves the most careful and persistent study
About writing verse, Author March knows more than he knows about the fight racket. His descriptions beat with journalistic rhythms and, if somewhat banal, his pictures are graphic and exciting...
...claiming sainthood for Louis XVI as a martyr to the faith, French Catholics are undoubtedly stretching somewhat the historical version of his execution. Louis was primarily a political victim; his life was a standing menace to the security of any thoroughgoing revolutionary regime and as such could not have been spared. But the case of the French Catholics is not so ill-founded as at first blush might appear...
...stage show is more elaborate and more gaudy than ever. It is somewhat too long, but under the able leadership of Ted Claire, presents some very good features. The best is an aerobatic act which contains amasing feats of agility and the right kind of accompanying humor...
...appears from the announcement of President Lowell that Harvard University is definitely committed to the plan of subdividing its undergraduate body into small residential groups, somewhat remotely after the Oxford and Cambridge model. The program has been drawn up, the die is cast, and we shall see what we shall...