Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Rothermere, secure in the knowledge that Il Duce is now politically a Black, wrote on, last week, in somewhat mystic vein...
...Department of Chemistry contemplates making the change, there will be available data that would seem to bear somewhat directly on the decision. Two years ago the Department of Bio-Chemical Sciences was created, with the object of removing evils then present in the system of pre-medical education. Although the achievements toward which the two systems point are essentially different, there is a similarity between the field that is not wholly superficial. The kinship between Physics and Chemistry is likewise great enough so that the influence of the sister science will probably be thrown into the scales. Dangerous...
Harvard's unique position among large universities, of possessing totally inadequate swimming facilities, has long been a somewhat sore spot. There is no use in denying that secondary school students whose favorite pastime is swimming are biased against a university not even represented in the sport. Furthermore, the fifty-yard requirement for Freshmen means a large number of novices to increase the crowding every year. "The pool's living water" is an apt description for three days of the week; and even on the odd afternoons there is now a fairly large number of habitual visitors. The old building...
...most people, however accustomed they have become to seeing streets thronged with such swift and glittering vehicles, the automobile still seems, in a somewhat profound sense, new. It is hard for them to realize that, measured against a man's span of life rather than against the centuries during which men moved by more awkward contrivances, automobiles have existed for a long time. Yet few of the men who built the first automobiles are still alive; Maxwell, Haynes, the Dodge Brothers-these were among the most important and all of them are dead. Last week Death, in his quick...
...Merry Wives of Windsor. Having toured the provinces for several monfhs in their genial reincarnation of Mr. Shakespeare's somewhat fleshly comic strip, Mrs. Fiske and Otis Skinner brought their efforts to Broadway for a limited engagement. Nobody could deny that Mr. Skinner was a sly and waggish Falstaff, nor could anyone suggest to Mrs. Fiske that the time had come for her to retire. All in all, their performance was good enough to make it clear that Shakespeare, when played at all, ought to be played in modern clothes and that a little less roguishness and a little...