Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Second Eclipse? Events had not moved sufficiently far this week to determine whether the new order means a fresh eclipse of the Storm Troops. Their power waned greatly after the "Blood Purge" (TIME, July 9, 1934), but in 1935 strongly waxed again. Somewhat of an enigma, Adolf Hitler keeps Germans guessing at many things. For example, the law concentrating all power in the Realmleader authorizes him to indicate how his successor is to be chosen and implies that he must do so. Yet he continues to delay. Nowadays he even delights in oratorical passages implying with throbbing pathos that...
...Rose Marie" in the movies has two glorious voices ringing back and forth to one another in the mountains and over the lakes of Canada. It has deepchested Nelson Eddy singing his love to Jeanette McDonald, and Jeanette responding, somewhat coyly, but with all her heart. This is ample recommendation for any eighty minutes' entertainment, and it should send you packing off for a bit of musical ecstasy. For to the untrained ear at least, both of their throats sound golden, and the recording, equally flawless...
...common knowledge that men on probation, and many men off probation who show little interest in their tutorial work, are allowed to go their own way, with the blessing of the tutor thus released from some of his overwork. The committee's suggestion is therefore already, though somewhat tacitly, in effect. But the students in question are not thus given very much stimulus to education. They merely pass their courses, slither past the minimum requirements, and get a degree signifying little more than four years' watching innumerable and golden opportunities...
Along with this delightful if somewhat disconcerting masterpiece, the Fine Arts is showing Fox-Movietone News; the adventures of Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck, and that horselike person as fire-fighters; and a picture of the Tournament of Roses classic with all its trimmings...
...because his uncle, Professor Bumstead, thinks the small and democratic college is better for him than Harvard. He plays football, sensationally, but only because it is his duty to play for his fellows. He accompanies his father on a cruise because he thinks he should and actually enjoys himself somewhat, but refuses to spend additional time with his father in the Mediterranean because it is his duty to return to America to college. But Oliver is no mere prig, no stuffed-shirt; it is his heart as well as his mind which calls him to duty...