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Word: somewhat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Final tabulations showed that Harvard students stand nearly four to one behind the recent Neutrality legislation, favor by a very narrow margin an immediate peace conference, but are opposed by a somewhat wider margin (236 votes) to American participation in such a conference...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poll Shows That Three-Quarters of Undergraduates Support Isolationism | 11/11/1939 | See Source »

...band and by the majorette, Miss Rennie Smith of Revere, joined the parade, while scores of others watched as it went down the street. Miss Smith, scorning the chill November wind, appeared in a costume appropriate for the occasion, and lent grace and precision to the enthusiastic but somewhat nondescript band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOWELL ACQUIRES MAJORETTE FOR FINAL GAME OF SEASON | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...arrested by the somewhat startling headline "Harvard Murphys Get $360 Each." It is a curious sort of scholarship, and if I were a Murphy I think I might resent it. No Murphy needs a hand-picked education, an appointed college or any other special favors whatsoever. Under proper leadership and direction, the Murphys do just as well as any other man. As a matter of fact, in my day along the Charles my closest friend was named Lambert Murphy. I imagine he would have scoffed at any such niggling subsidy as $360. On nights when he could manage to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...above article is somewhat condensed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 11/8/1939 | See Source »

...better (not the best) comic strips. His Freudian overtones and contemporary analogies make the book "profound," in the publisher's opinion, as well as "funny." There is an ice carnival, a burlesque of chivalry complete with pratt falls; there is an affecting and terrible sequence, in somewhat doubtful taste, about a unicorn. The book as a whole might be described as a shake-up of British rectory humor, Evelyn Waugh, Laurel & Hardy, John Erskine, and the Marquis de Sade, quite well enough blended to please the palate of Sword-in-the-Stone partisans, to assure its author definite standing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Arthurian Cocktail | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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