Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before attempting to deal with this politically impossible situation, it seemed prudent for Sarwat Pasha to divest himself somewhat of his pro-British taint. This he attempted to do by the bold if paradoxical move of reporting to Baron Lloyd that the Egyptian Cabinet had totally rejected the treaty...
During March Harvard begins to grow somewhat restless. No longer do the section meetings hold their charm for the student who has to attend them. Sometimes he even wishes he had not enjoyed himself quite so much during the winter. The cold that he had to guard against then can only be found now where the sun never penetrates--and he shivers in his seat in the halls of Sever. He is impatient of the slow-melting ice on the Charles. It is time the grass began to grow green, be thinks--and lapses into the traditional dreams...
Perhaps his initial sniffles of spring fever are somewhat justified. Spring may be almost here. The Lampoon has indulged in its annual hoax. The Advertiser is printing more and more love scandals in its daily columns. Even the Dean feels the effects now that he has almost finished with the results of the Mid Years. The last has been heard of the Prom and its inevitable crashers. Somewhere vaguely ahead are the April Hours. Yes, perhaps the student is right, and spring is not very far over the horizon...
...unique in the number of pungent details. Some of them: 1) Capital stock and surplus, $43,760,162.39; 2) Earnings for 1927 were $14,580,902 as against $13,-311,412 for 1926; 3) Of sales progress the statement said with a lofty wobble, "Business conditions in America were somewhat varied, but the foreign business showed steady growth;" 4) "Surgeons' knives, chisels, office-knives and twine-cutters have been added to our line during 1927;" 5) "We regret to record the death during the year of one of our oldest directors, Mr. William A. Gaston. Mr. John Gaston...
...biography of Artist Aubrey Beardsley. His book says little about Beardsley's family, his schooldays, his friends. It conveys scarcely any of the color of the period, already so remote and glittering, in which Beardsley drew his astonishing pictures for The Yellow Book. Only between the somewhat heavy lines of Author MacFall's writing can be discovered the eccentric tragedy of Beardsley's last year of life, when, while he was doing his best drawings for The Savoy, he was living far from London, sick and making dirty pictures. Author MacFall is still the critic; when...