Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Purveyor's of the History Department's choice tutorial volumes from the Lower Widener Reading room will be somewhat hindered in their activities this year by a new system which will soon be put into effect...
...Polish political situation is somewhat unusual. The President (pedagogic Professor Ignatz Moscicki) is the impotent puppet of Josef Pilsudski, Premier, Minister of War & Marshal of Poland, who is actually the law. Although he appears in the Sejm on important occasions (such as political crises, when he dons his much-worn military uniform to terrify his opponents), he leaves much governmental business to another puppet: Vice Premier & Minister of Religion & Education, Professor Kazimierz Bartel...
...unique office is the idea of Frank N. Doubleday. Mr. Doubleday, no longer young and somewhat invalided as a result of sleeping sickness during the War period, does not see many people. He prefers the unconventional seclusion of this motor office to the telephone jangling and the unchanging aspects of "conference rooms...
...associate managers are chosen from the same competitions as the managers. The man who takes second place in the Sophomore competition for second assistant football manager becomes manager of the second team his Junior year and associate football manager his Senior year. Somewhat similarly, the man who takes second place in the Sophomore competition for second assistant crew manager becomes manager of the 150-pound crew his Sophomore year, assistant associate crew manager his Junior year and associate manager his Senior year...
Both Kelley and Burns played football at Exeter, the former being somewhat obscured in the academy ranks after a brilliant career at Winchester High, while the latter never attained first string rating among his schoolboy teammates. The possibilities of either as a first string college pilot are very difficult to predict. Close followers of the sport for the last few years have been surprised this year to see Kelley holding down the team A assignment. The coaches have so far made no comment on the quarterback situation and the purport of the reports that have proceeded from the scrimmages...