Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is 57 under last year's total of 7870, and although late registrations may be expected to increase the number somewhat during the week, it is not felt now that it will reach the 3000 predicted earlier in the week...
...unreal adventures he encountered on the way. These adventures ranged from a prison escape to casual encounters with the passionate overnight beauties of the Orient. Much of the strangeness of the book had its source in the author's ability to make the Continent of Asia seem somewhat like a small town, filled with the same gossipy characters turning up on every corner, with the same old feuds and underground activities that a stranger might be aware of, get involved in, but could not understand...
...language, their mastery of rhythm, their melancholy speculative tone-as well as by the inveterate ambiguity of their meaning-the verses included in The Assassins ranged from night thoughts on the shores of the Baltic to an evocation of Alexandria at noon, gave an impression of a strong talent somewhat overburdened with literary allusions and traditional poetic moods. Possessing none of the sardonic mockery that distinguishes so much post-War poetry. Frederic Prokosch writes of ruins that call to mind the brevity of human life, invokes the stars and the sea as symbols of permanence, speculates on the prehistoric innocence...
They were awaiting the appearance of the first issue. "We were all." wrote one at the time, "profoundly interested, somewhat excited--agitated over the possible reception of our venture by the student body and other ... we hoped that our efforts would be appreciated and would meet with a friendly reception...
With this in the back of his mind. Mr. Clark was somewhat awed to sea the new Building, erected in 1916. Walking slowly up the stairs to the sanctum, leaning hard on an old came, black hat in hand, and white hair falling easily on his fore head, all seemed quite unreal. But then the sight of an old picture of the Board, done in 1874, brought things to right Here were Sam, Charlie, and Ed. who had died in this year and that before and since...