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Word: somewhat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What? Director Barr spent his spare time last week warning himself against the perils of Bigness and Popularity. So far the Museum has amply proved its intellectual honesty, to the dinner-table discomfiture of certain conservative trustees. Director Barr is delighted and others are somewhat surprised that the trustees have supported him so well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beautiful Doings | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

When you call me the "younger brother of Author Christopher Morley" [TIME, April 24] I feel somewhat the same way that your editors might if TIME were called the younger brother of The Literary Digest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 15, 1939 | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...magazine sales crews. Robert's father is a respected lawyer in Seattle, a onetime prosecuting attorney. Robert followed each one of his father's criminal cases with intense interest, spotting in each case the malefactor's errors which led to detection and capture. Mr. Burgunder was somewhat puzzled by this queer absorption, but not enough disquieted to put a stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Model | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...Harvard. Crowds turned out, as they still do, to hear his lectures and readings of his own poetry. In a creaking, cranky voice as of one grinding his own poetic ax, and with the mannerisms of a Yankee hired man who knows more than he lets on and somewhat despises his boss for knowing less, he dropped hints that poetry was the most important thing in the world. Then he would read from his own poems, as evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Muse | 5/15/1939 | See Source »

...last note--highly recommended . . . "Wizzin' The Wizz" and "Denison Swing," supposedly featuring the rather tiresome but flashy two fingered piano of Lionel Hampton, really shows the fine drumming of Cozy Cole and sax by Chu Berry . . . "Shangri-La" (Les Brown) has some unusual and beautiful changes, though it sounds somewhat like "Chant of the Weed...

Author: By Michael Levin, | Title: Swing | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

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