Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...graduated from Carlisle in 1879 and that he had visited Mayor LaGuardia's city "long time ago." He still remembered the State of Liberty and he fought in his tribe's last battle against the white men. After hearing all this in perfectly good English, I was somewhat puzzled to observe Wolf Tooth using an interpreter during the ensuing adoption ceremony that made the Mayor Chief Rising Cloud...
About the quality of the work on hand, Chicagoans were of two minds. One mind belonged to the Chicago Daily Tribune's conservative critic, Eleanor Jewett, who reported somewhat tartly that it was "practically a complete triumph for the modernists" and "filled with bad painting." "Modernism" being a verbal shinny-can long since whanged out of all shape or precision, art-lovers went to see for themselves. Most of them concluded that the Institute's 17th, representing many of the top-flight artists of 14 nations, was indeed contemporary but well up to its lively standard...
...menace to the freedom of the press, a menace in this country vastly more acute than the menace from government, may come through the pressure not of one group of advertisers, but of a wide sector of newspaper advertisers. Newspaper advertising is now placed somewhat, if not largely, through nationwide advertising agencies. ... As advisers the advertising agencies may exercise unbelievably powerful pressure upon newspapers. There is grave danger that in the coming decade . . . this capacity for organized control of newspaper opinion through the political advisers of national advertisers who in turn are paid to control public opinion may constitute...
...offspring has chosen a plan of attack which seems on the whole to be highly practicable. Students will not specialize in technical training for the purpose of stepping into one particular government job fully prepared, but will cover the broader and more fundamental fields which will prepare them in somewhat the same fashion as the Studies for English Civil Service exams...
...advisers who ordinarily arrange extraordinary conferences with Mr. Roosevelt were already complaining that the occasion had become uncomfortably historic. According to this somewhat jaundiced view, the President's brother-in-law, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, had bungled at a crucial stage in the Administration's Second Recovery Program. By arranging a White House invitation to Henry Ford, moaned these counselors, this onetime Detroit comptroller had also arranged a White House dramatization for the stiffest and most nonresilient member of the Opposition; had, indeed, obliterated the effects of the friendly pronouncement from SECommissioner John Hanes's Sixteen Businessmen...