Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...challenged was a belief that his legal and economic philosophy was dangerously radical. The grounds for the belief lay in no political activities, but in the record of 37 years of practice which had made Louis Brandeis a national figure as Boston's "People's Lawyer." The somewhat prodigious son of a prosperous Louisville grain merchant who had emigrated from Prague in 1848, Louis Brandeis went to Harvard Law School in 1875, in time to hear, at the house of a professor, a paper on education, read in a quavering old man's voice, by Ralph Waldo...
...Usher is somewhat more kindly, but he feels that the elaborate statistics adduced by Sorokin do not, on the whole, support his argument. As a historian, Usher has little sympathy with Sorokin's method of ideal types which he believes better adapted to short essays than to extended treatises...
...also regrettable that this big feature throws the issue as a whole somewhat out of balance. There are several nice, though much less pretentious articles...
...Somewhat breathless from all this, newly-elected Benjamin Fairless hustled home from the directors' meeting to his suite in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, was so agog he forgot to collect his key at the desk on the ground floor. Finding the door locked and his wife out, Ben Fairless asked a passing maid to let him in. Suspiciously she refused. So did another. "Hell!" snapped President-elect Fairless, "This is a fine pickle. Nobody knows me around here...
...feeling of insecurity that a member of the board undertakes to edit a paper on a day when the chief sources of news seem to have temporarily dried up. In such cases his sole consolation rests in the axiom that the presses must never cease rolling, and in the somewhat surprising tradition that the CRIMSON has always been published on schedule...