Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gangplank of the S. S. George Washington there shambled, last fortnight, an unkempt, lanky man whose profile somewhat resembles that of the late famed Robert Louis Stevenson. Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie. Why should they? Not one American in ten thousand has ever heard of John Dewey...
...clatter that came from the ground floor, the schoolgirls shivered in their beds. When it continued, like the uproar that might herald the approach of some terrible invasion, they left their beds and crept to the head of the stairs. Below them, they saw a Roman scene. A lady somewhat their senior, in a nightgown, indiscreet and hilarious, bade them come down to a feast which she had made ready...
...Bulletin not get its "even break," but the placid life of Boston journalism is destroyed. And more serious than this, the University, though not, of course, to blame for the questionable conduct of the Traveler, American, and Transcript is put into the position of the well-meaning but somewhat unpractical bank offered as a horrible example above...
Shut-Down. Last week the New York Stock Exchange was again closed on Saturday so that brokers' clerks could catch somewhat up on their back records...
...joined assets of the two vast corporations at the end of last year were approximately $893,000,000. Now they are greater, for the companies' business increases by 12% each year. Yet the total assets are somewhat less than the billion dollars that U. S. investors admire. There are eleven billion dollar corporations already in the U. S.† and this merger promised to create the twelfth...