Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting of the whole Council a recommendation to the Athletic Committee was passed after a somewhat long and heated discussion asking that hockey be made a major sport. The Athletic Committee carried out the suggestion...
...Meanwhile at Nahant, Mass., where a sharply horizontal house is abuilding for Son No. 4 John's parent-in-law-to-be, Fiancee Anne Lindsay Clark's eleven-year-old sister Joan said of Franklin Roosevelt, to whom she refers somewhat prematurely as "Uncle Franklin": "I like him. He's smart. He said I was one American who came to Washington without a set of demands...
Umpteenth in the current series of romantic-slapstick comedies, "Joy of Living," with Irene Dunne and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., is somewhat disappointing mainly because its cast arouses expectations of something better. This does not mean that it is not thoroughly amusing and considerably above the usual comedy run. However, the dialogue is uninspired and labored, and at times merely insipid. Some of the funny situations are drawn out until the last tortured laugh is extorted from unhappy spectators, while other situations are simply not funny. Such a thing is deplorable, for Miss Dunne and Mr. Fairbanks are as engaging...
Professional golfers are somewhat like race horses. They receive no salary for their competitive performances, are rewarded only when they finish in the money...
...time and space to probability waves, and the problem of placing such waves in the field concept of space is a major one. Suppose that a solution is found; in what way are we better off? Dr. Einstein is not sure. "In our endeavor to understand reality we are somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. He sees the face and the moving hands, even hears its ticking, but he has no way of opening the case. If he is ingenious he may form some picture of a mechanism which could be responsible...