Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...price-fixing." Even this bow to the McNary-Haugen bill prompted no reply from the President who came with the intention of making no speech and left with the knowledge that his intention had been fulfilled. Senator Norbecky however, replied briefly to the 'Bulow speech, though with the somewhat equivocal statement that the only thing worse than a Republican tariff was a Democratic tariff. The other South Dakota senator-McMaster-also in the President's party, duplicated the President's silence...
...London last week, the members of the British Empire cancer campaign, which is functioning somewhat in the manner of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, heard described the slow motion photography of living cancer cells. A motion picture camera is focused on a cancer sore and operated slowly for varying periods up to two days. The long negative is developed and a positive film made. When the reel is projected on a screen the cancer cells, magnified, are seen spreading, moving, creeping, quite like budding flowers seen in slow motion pictures. The process is expected to reveal...
Many citizens of the free and independent Republic of Bolivia were somewhat downcast last week by what might seem a trivial cause. Bolivia is almost twice as large in area as Texas and has about the population of Chicago; but last week this sovereign state was troubled by the destruction of its entire merchant marine. The destruction was trivial in its way, because the Bolivian merchant marine consisted of a single ship, the Presidente Saavedra, named for onetime (1921-26) President Dr. Bautista Saavedra* of Bolivia. In the spacious harbor of Buenos Aires, Argentina, the one-ship fleet of Bolivia...
...Interstate Commerce Commission? And John James Tigert himself, U. S. Commissioner of Education? These and many another Rhodes Scholar are as well known as able President Aydelotte, or should be. Rhodes Scholars have distinguished themselves right and left?unless "running the country" be taken to mean the somewhat vulgar occupation of politics...
...professor was M. Mortensen of the dairy department of Iowa State College. He addressed the American Institute of Co-operation at Chicago: "The individual who may be interested in cheese making is at present likely to become somewhat discouraged. The cheese industry of the United States can well afford to invest a fair sum of money in advertising its product. There is no other food product to be had in which nutritive value, wholesomeness and palatability are so well combined. It is unnatural that there should be only a limited effort of the manufacturers. Education and advertising should create...