Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department of Commerce to proceed with reapportionment in accordance with the population figures shown by that census. (Bill opponents did most of their talking against the Department of Commerce, arguing that Congress was abrogating a right, a privilege, a duty, in favor of a government department.) Based on a somewhat arithmetical system of "major fractions,"* the Fenn plans provide essentially that the 1930 population will be divided by the number of representatives (435) and the resultant figures taken as the average population of a district. Then the population of each state will be divided by this average district population...
While the Governor of Sonora, Mexico, had given permission to the Fimores raid, no statement was issued regarding his attitude toward a possible larger expedition. The situation was somewhat reminiscent, though on a much smaller scale, of General Pershing's 1916 entrance into Mexican territory in unsuccessful search for Bandit Villa. The Apaches sought are descendants of those Red Indians who under chieftain Geronimo were dispersed by General Miles, in whose force was one Surgeon Leonard Wood...
...erroneous U. S. impression that Soviet housewives have no servants was corrected, last week, by earnest, diligent Commissar of Health Nikolai A. Semashko in somewhat startling fashion. With the total candor of an authentic savant, Comrade Semashko stated...
Professor Babbitt is, of course, a faculty member of the very university whose fundamental bases of teaching he so caustically criticizes, and should know somewhat whereof he speaks.....He declares American education, as typified by his university, has been granted so much liberty that it is now approaching license, and advocates a return to a more rigid standards and restrictions...
...know him in this capacity can testify to his eminent fitness for a position in which the faculty to understand and guide undergraduates will be a prime requisite. Professor Coolidge, a man of lively perception and liberal sympathies, has also impressed the charm of his personality on the somewhat smaller number of Harvard men who have known him personally...