Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last weekend the Vagabond set himself for an enormous coverage of work. Divisionals were rolling in, and this was no time to fool around. But when Saturday afternoon had somewhat spent itself in the stacks of Harry's Club, he couldn't resist going down to the old ship-yard just to take a look at his small cruising cutter. There it was tucked away in the corner of the big shed. It's bottom was rough and brown but a little work would fix it up, he thought--as he climbed over the side and stepped quietly into...
...apparently cautious King George did not want any possible inference to be drawn from what might be so cut and printed as to seem to be a picture of His Majesty posing alone with Princess Elizabeth. Her Royal Highness was permitted to assume, in token that she has "somewhat grown up" at twelve years, her first appointment: president of the new Children's League of the Princess Elizabeth of York Hospital for Children in Shadwell, a grimy London slum. The little princesses were seen last week in new spring costumes of delicate powder blue, and Queen Mary appeared with...
...attended two games a week for the past 28 seasons. "I remember the time when if they got more than four hits off Walter Johnson they run up the flag," he declared, somewhat embarrassed at being interviewed. "But the new lively ball has changed all that," he added a bit sadly, "they depend on slugging now instead of playing real baseball...
This week Britons hoped that their dynamic, somewhat dictatorial War Secretary will get on well with Dictator Mussolini, to whom he is carrying a warm message of personal regard from Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Premier Mussolini has not been visited by any member of a British Cabinet since June 2 5, 1935-the fateful summer day on which Mr. Anthony Eden had a personal quarrel in Rome with the Dictator which affected the whole history of contemporary Europe. Just before the War Secretary left England by plane for Malta, where he will inspect naval defenses before going to Rome this...
...instructive if somewhat unsightly object lesson in the laws of genetics has been provided in recent months by M. Etienne Letard of the National Veterinary School at Alfort, France. M. Letard has bred a race of hairless cats. One or two hairless kittens appear from time to time in the litters of two perfectly normal Siamese parents...