Word: somewhat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...easily be dodged if a measure of thoughtful advice on instructors and courses is forthcoming. It has been for several years the Crimson's aim to furnish this advice to new men; hence, the Confidential Guide has become a traditional aid to incoming, Freshmen. This year, minus its somewhat misleading title, "Confidential," the Freshman Guide will be written to stress student opinion on first year courses, disregarding for the autumn at least the secondary problem of choice of fields of concentration...
...white-haired Eastman founded a $17,000,000 school of music in Rochester. This huge establishment was somewhat grandiose for a town of Rochester's size, but the Eastman School of Music flourished, and is today counted one of the most important music conservatories...
...compositions, that they would have clutched 0 Sole Mio or Ach Du Lieber Augustin like a drowning man. Most-talked-about item of the series: a symphony by a 20-year-old post graduate Eastman student named Owen Reed. Some critics found Reed's brief, concise opus somewhat monotonous. Not so Director Hanson, who spoke of it with exuberant breath: "Comparison of Reed's work with Beethoven's can be made only by a critic in the year...
Joyce's curious glasses give him a somewhat Martian appearance. The left lens is so thick it is almost a hemisphere, and to focus it is necessary for him to throw back his head slightly when looking at people. Ten years ago, Joyce could not see with his left eye at all, and a cataract was beginning to form on the right eye. Every operation on the left eye caused a hemorrhage. Finally Dr. Alfred Vogt of Zurich succeeded in making an artificial pupil for the left eye, set in below the position of the normal pupil. The cataract...
...know, the Faculty went along half-heartedly, somewhat ashamed, I think, to recognize the situation and also somewhat afraid to take drastic action because of the publicity angle," he continued...