Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view in other directions. To the undergraduate, Harvard is Harvard College; the other departments of the University exist for him as places where the residents have nothing in common with him but a search for knowledge which is so much more intense than his own that even it is somewhat foreign...
...catch low-toned thrusts and parries. Relatively in the background remained Senator Reed of Missouri, big anti-treaty gun still to be shot off. Meanwhile Bruce of Maryland, Johnson of California, Robinson of Indiana, Bingham of Connecticut, many another smaller gun popped, snapped, sputtered. The Senator from Idaho began somewhat to resemble an Horatius at the bridge, a Leonidas at Thermopylae. It was a sham battle, inasmuch as there existed an almost universal opinion that the treaty would easily collect its necessary two-thirds vote. Nevertheless, Senator Borah's partners remained silent partners; Senator Borah was sharply badgered, the treaty...
...Senator was somewhat disturbed when Senator Glass asked him what would happen, under the treaty, if the League of Nations took coercive measures to settle the Paraguay-Bolivian dispute. He ran his hands through his hair, hesitated, said that he did not think the U. S. could intervene provided the League did not attempt to overthrow the Paraguayan or Bolivian governments. He added, however, that European governments had previously used force in South America without U. S. objection, and that what ever we could do in South America with out the treaty we could continue to do with the treaty...
...from society to prevent the production of subnormal offsprings."* It appeared at least possible, however, that Mrs. Miller would not spend the rest of her life as Convict No. 1289. Michi gan's Governor Fred W. Green has already expressed the opinion that the "habitual criminal" act is somewhat drastic in its application to liquor law offenses. It is also thought that the Michigan Legislature will amend the state prohibition laws to give such offenders as Mrs. Miller a loop hole from the "habitual criminal" penalty. If such a crime as Mrs. Miller's, for in stance, were...
...have a great many ties to choose from." He communicated this illuminating morsel of information to his bastard son, poetic and bumptious youth of 16, whom he was meeting for the first time. Albert had in fact been unaware of his child's existence until its mother, a somewhat charming though intensely idealistic creature, whom he had once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father and learn the ways of the world-in which there could have been no better tutor than Albert...