Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Same Age." The morning after Mr. Hoover had left Buenos Aires, La Nacion (potent daily) printed an exclusive and somewhat effusive interview with him. Some new Hooverisms...
...Yale, full professors receive from $6,000 to $8,000; the Medical School salaries are somewhat higher. At the Law School certain professors make...
...knew Mr. Warburg in 1908; the U. S. Senate and the U. S. public did not become thoroughly aware of him until 1914, when President Wilson appointed him a member of the first Federal Reserve Board. A Senate Committee on Banking and Currency questioned Mr. Warburg, their inquiries colored somewhat by a distorted idea of the Money Demon and Mr. Warburg as an incarnation of it. At that time a Kuhn-Loeb member, and with an income of some half a million a year, Mr. Warburg devoted himself to building up the Federal Reserve system. For four years...
Commercially Brazil is a backward Colossus. The torpor of her tropic citizens and the very plenitude of projects at their disposal has made the land somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom...
...Only recently has Henry Ford stirred Brazilian hopes of reviving the good old rubber days, by leasing over 3,000,000 Amazonian acres on which Fordized rubber plantations are being started. Some wild rubber is still gathered on the upper tributaries of the Amazon. Notably a ferocious and somewhat mysterious Italian who calls himself "The King of the Xingu" has terrorized and virtually enslaved several tribes on the Xingu River who now meekly gather wild rubber for the Racketeer King. Curiously enough a majority of the simple, aboriginal Indians of Brazil were for centuries totally ignorant that a human...