Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Moore-Brabazon is fascinated by the news of the atom's interior and behavior which trickles out of the cloister into the writings of such interpreters as Jeans, Eddington and Professor Andrade. But he is also somewhat annoyed by the paradoxes and abstractions which result from the fact that atomic behavior cannot be visualized or represented by commonplace physical analogy. In a letter printed by Nature last month he drew up a polite bill of complaint against the physicists. A chief item was that after laymen have learned to regard protons, electrons and other charged particles as nothing...
Last week a somewhat showy light in the East appeared for U. S. artists who would like to do serious illustrations for good books. Foregathered for a grand dinner in the Jade Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria were 300 socialite members of an organization known as The Limited Editions Club, which, for annual dues of $120, has since 1929 been sending them twelve Fine Books a year. Also on hand were four well-known U. S. artists, cherubic John Steuart Curry, swarthy Thomas Benton, freckle-fisted Reginald Marsh and bright-nosed Henry Varnum Poor. To them the Limited...
...longer and more scholarly article we should insist that Professor Haring penetrate somewhat deeper into the difference between fascism and South American dictatorship but here, quite rightly he limits himself to raising the right questions...
...supported by Beverly Roberts--and to it are added a prize fight, a regiment of California State Highway Police, a rain storm complete with sound effects, Hugh Herbert, and a strong dose of Hollywood's kind-hearts-are-more-than-coronets philosophy. All this tends to make the picture somewhat confusing until the fuller significance of the thing is grasped; it is an answer, almost a rebuke, to James Hilton; it shows in no uncertain terms how dreadfully dull Shangri-la would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would be in actual operation, how inevitably the inmates would...
...comic relief, and the verdict goes to the former. An hospitable divorce, living on alimony, Mr. Herbert always cashes his guests' checks, but has a "No Funds" stamp of his own to save him the trouble of going to the bank. The plaster on his little farmhouse was somewhat cracked, "but it reflects my personality. Whoo-whoo...