Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hook snapped off, but one of the fish (a 100-pounder) became so entangled in Angler Roosevelt's wire leader that the President was able to land it. That day also he landed his heaviest catch to date, a 230-lb. shark, which revenged him somewhat on the Cocos shark tribe for stealing many fish off his hook.* To greet the U. S. President at Balboa came Panama's President Juan Demóstenes Arosemena, bearing a gift of rare Panamanian stamps, a complete album of every issue since 1897, in a casket of polished hardwood. They motored...
...many a football fan, the news was somewhat puzzling. They all knew that "The Whizzer," who had worked his way through the University of Colorado doing odd jobs at 30? an hour, had refused the Pirates' offer of $15,000 (for twelve games) last winter after a month of trying to decide which he wanted more: $15,000 or two years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar...
...Somewhat battered by financial adversity, the far-flung empire of William Randolph Hearst remains the greatest conglomeration of publishing enterprises in the U. S. Hearst's 21 daily and 16 Sunday newspapers may not be able to start a war or elect a President, as they used to, but their circulation of 4,453,579 daily and 6,856,793 Sunday still stands supreme.* The highest law in this empire has always been what followed the electrifying phrase: "The Chief says-." Today, the potency of this phrase is a subject of much discussion in the newspaper world. "The Chief...
...Shell Union 8,480,927 5,830,437 Aircraft Douglas 525,822 1.093,149 Martin 526,307 1,372,600 Cinema Paramount 4,290,000 1,225,811 Twentieth Century-Fox (26 weeks) 3,755,483 3,419,658 d=deficit The gloominess of some of these earnings was somewhat lessened when they were broken down. General Motors, for example, made $24,786,002 in the second quarter of 1938 compared to only $8,234,017 in the first quarter. With a similar improvement from $2,109,969 in the first quarter to $3,559,631 in the second, Chrysler...
Fascism, meanwhile, was putting on a somewhat pip-squeak show in Rome last week, necessitated by the fact that the Italian-Hungarian-Austrian Protocols have lost one leg of this never very imposing diplomatic tripod. Only thing to do was to make a face-saving announcement that Italy and Hungary now constitute a bipod as faithful as ever to the Fascist cooperative spirit, and for this purpose to Rome last week went Hungary's economic strongman, Banker-Premier Béla Imrédy, who had never before met Mussolini...