Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easy to get a price as to fix it," said he somewhat ruefully. "It may not be possible to get $60. However, that is the price on which Canadian sentiment is fixed, and we will do our best to obtain it. We have recognized that the price...
Excited at the news, Vice President J. L. Fearing of International Paper Co. (I. P. & P. subsidiary) telephoned to Montreal to learn the reason for his chief's sudden reversal. By this time President Graustein had recovered somewhat from his interview with the two premiers...
Metropolitan Hysteria. A low-flying plane crashed on a building in crowded Manhattan last fortnight. The police, somewhat hysterical, threatened to require flyers to keep at least 7,000 ft. above the ground. Department of Commerce regulations stipulate 1,000 ft. as minimum over congested areas. To quiet metropolitan hysteria two planes of the Gates Flying Service last week cut off their motors at 3,000 ft. over the centre of the island and glided, with moderate wind to help them, to safe, dead stick landings at New York's outskirts. An ordinary commercial plane has an average gliding ratio...
...standing room in the subway . . . is the result of two forms of effort, the guard and the search, made by the Home-stayer on the one hand, and by the bold affronter of the new on the other; that is, by the citizen and the adventurer." Upon this somewhat labored proposition Author Bolitho presents, en brochette, the characters of Alexander the Great, Catiline, Mahomet, Columbus, Cagliostro and Seraphina, Casanova, Charles XII of Sweden, Lola Montez, Napoleon I and III, Isadora Duncan and Woodrow Wilson...
...performing dogs which the tender hearted heroine undertakes to shelter in the absence of their owner, with no better facilities for housing them than a hall bedroom. Eight dogs and a girl in a small bedroom provides an amusing scene, the dogs adding to the entertainment by their somewhat too casual behaviour...