Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relation between the country's most important man-Franklin Delano Roosevelt-and its most important activity- Business. Business has been apt to regard Franklin Roosevelt as a malicious ogre who has its fate in his perverse hands. Franklin Roosevelt has appeared to regard Business as a malevolent force, somewhat parallel to original sin, which cannot be wiped out but should be perpetually chastened. In this strange misapprehension, the gravest flaw is obvious: it does not approximate reality. Last week, in the light of glaring facts, the President and Business were forced to see each other in better perspective. Results...
...want it done. . . . My mother heard . . . after it was over and protested. ... I thought for a while that life had very little left for me but I have since changed and want to be a beauty operator. . . ." The mother of another Beloit inmate, a Mrs. Betty Benson, somewhat ambiguously declared that her sterilized daughter Bertha was "the best fitted of my six children to have babies." In Lyons, Kans., a man whose 19-year-old sister had been paroled to him said she had been sterilized "apparently . . . because accused of insubordination...
With a whinnying of trumpets and a rolling rataplan of drums, the curtains at Manhattan's Shubert Theatre parted this week to disclose two apparently naked gods reclining on a cloud, their bare bottoms perked toward the heavens, their amorous gaze fixed on the somewhat startled audience. The bare bottoms were moulded of impersonal papier-mache, but the silver-bearded Jovian head on the left was unmistakably that of Alfred Lunt. Theatre Guild subscribers, present for the Manhattan opening of Amphitryon 38, settled back expectantly in their seats. They realized that Jupiter Lunt's eyes were not feasting...
...Yale man," the editors are "glad to say," "is a somewhat happy medium between the two extremes of the big three. He is proud of his alma mater's name, but he is not like the weary Cantabridgian, weighed down by the responsibility of belonging to America's Oldest College, and, while he is still one of the just-a-big-boy school, he manages to escape the callowness of the Princeton man. The Yale man is a lively, boisterous, generous host, and the most rahrah college man cast of the Alleghenies . . . He is apt to be too clothes conscious...
Exactly what this scheme was has been more or less forgotten, and the Committee members floundered somewhat in their statements, with Britain most eager and France willing to put through an immediate, unanimous agreement. The Scheme...