Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, the huge floe on which the camp stood had broken off from the polar ice pack, was drifting on a zigzag southward course which veered somewhat to the west (see map), in currents which had been charted previously but whose speed had been underestimated. Some days the drift was six or seven miles. As it entered warmer water, the floe began to break up. Last fortnight a hurricane reduced it to 200 yards by 300. Last week it was down to 50 yards by 70. When the part of the floe on which their tent stood was submerged...
Under Plan II, the examination is somewhat more complex. It will be held under the following rules...
Seen thus by dim and bobbling light were 229 objets d'art by 60 artists of 14 different nations, many of them expressive of war and spiritual suffering, many more bearing out the abstruse eroticism of the entrance hall. To Surrealists sex and horror are indescribable and somewhat confused; therefore they merely express themselves on these matters through a calculated but capricious symbolism. At least one exhibit was animated (see cut). One of the objects displayed was a suitcase containing a neatly packed skull and gas mask stuffed with newspapers headlined The Menace of Fascism. Another was an enameled...
...royal couple will arrive in the United States on June 27, according to the report. If the consular officials expect him to get his degree at Commencement, they will be surprised, more than somewhat, since Commencement is on June...
Soccer is somewhat to England what baseball is to the U. S.-the most popular professional sport. Last week, while 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio was demanding more than the $25,000 offered him to play baseball for less than six months this year, British soccer players were engaged in a British version of the American holdout. With businesslike dignity they demanded that their minimum wage be raised from ?4 to ?5 ($25) a week and their maximum from...