Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fairly warm winter. For there are a great many days each year when there is no skating on the Charles, while a rink would be crowded. Here, if snow were scraped off and rough ice were flooded, one cold night would produce good ice even if it thawed somewhat the next...
...Marshal's son & heir, Chang Hsueh-liang, "The Young Marshal," blamed the Japanese for his father's somewhat mysterious assassination, and allied himself with Chiang. Six years ago the Japanese drove The Young Marshal out of Manchuria and reorganized it as their puppet state Manchukuo, but the rest of China had been brought under the flag of the Nanking Government, that is, of Generalissimo Chiang (TIME...
...caused when he moves a certain muscle in his palate. The movement of the palatal muscle carries the sound through the Eustachian tube to the middle ear.'' The muscular agitation in the roof of Veteran Hester's mouth appeared to be semivoluntary or hysterical in character, somewhat like hysterical paralysis which immobilizes an arm or leg although there is nothing organically wrong. There was some evidence that Veteran Hester could start or stop the muscular ticking at will. He was therefore advised that if he made up his mind to stop and was confident he could stop...
...drum rhythms handed down through generations of woolly-headed blacks, Oriental priests and court musicians (even by U. S. Indians, hillbillies and Negroes in the South and West) are already extinct. Causes of this high mortality rate: the phonograph and the radio. Primitive races find old-fashioned radio sets somewhat fragile for jungle use. But cheap, hand-cranked squeak-boxes with chipped records of American cowboy songs and Italian operas are found today in mud-walled villages from Timbuktu to Singapore. Impressed by this mechanical magic, natives imitate the scratchy voices, learn to sing Il Trovatore, and end by preferring...
VERTIGO-Lynd Ward-Random House ($3). Woodcutter Lynd Ward's fourth and most straightforward picture-novel (others: Gods' Man, Mad Man's Drum, Wild Pilgrimage). Proletarian victims are a boy and girl from Manhattan's slums; Capitalist villain, an old man somewhat reminiscent of the late John D. Rockefeller...