Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British, two Egyptian, one Dutch). Italians have long clamored for lower Canal tolls and representation on the Board of Directors, chiefly because Italy spends big money on Suez tolls to maintain communication with Italian East Africa. Lately Italy has been trying to lend weight to its demands with the somewhat irrelevant assertion that not only Ferdinand de Lesseps, but three obscure Italian engineers planned and dug the ditch. Their names: Negrelli, Torelli and Paleocapa...
...somewhat inclined to feel, at this time of year, that the boys who have not done well, having failed to take advantage of the opportunities that are undoubtedly here, deserve little mention or consideration. . . . It is too bad that some boys won't awaken to their responsibilities and do what they can do to measure up to the best that is in them. About all one can hope for in such cases is that some day such boys will realize how foolish they have been and strive to do better...
...Senators & wives were invited to the party. Credit went to Mrs. Garner, whose husband, it was rumored, threatened to send her home to Texas so he would have an excuse (inability to get into a stiff shirt without her) to give all the parties a miss. Lady Lindsay somewhat rehabilitated herself with the Washington press by calling attention to the fact that the Lady Lindsay roses in her garden are described in the catalog as ''stout, very thorny and tending to ramble...
...Americanism in the arts lags behind Pan-Americanism in politics there was evidence in Manhattan that it at least exists. Opened at the Riverside Museum was the first sizable exhibition ever held in the U. S. of contemporary art from Latin-American countries. Its somewhat anomalous front man: Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace, in his capacity as Chairman of the United States New York World's Fair Commission. To Henry Wallace's invitation, nine nations had responded with 343 works...
...perfectly poised between these poles of blood and soil, so that his actions are always determined by them, but appear to be instinctive and unreasoned, like the actions of a healthy animal. When Nazi theoreticians sound off about the German folk-soul, they mean to refer to this somewhat vague balance of blood, soil, race...