Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messiah chiefly because he was able to reduce taxes in the boom years of 1926 to 1929. Indeed his lieutenants are handing out literature to show how low the tax rate was in these years, quite oblivious of the fact that falling property valuations renders this evidence somewhat questionable...
...returned to New York to bury his wife, met a charming girl who called herself, somewhat interchangeably, Beula Benton Edmondson (her father was a Scotsman descended from a Norman knight who crossed the Channel with William the Conqueror), or Keetaw Kelantucky Sequoan (her mother was a Cherokee descended from Chief Sequoyah who invented the Cherokee alphabet). After a month's courtship he married her. Despite elaborate precautions to keep the time and place of the wedding secret, enthusiastic Tammany crowds jammed the streets for blocks. Dozens of New York's photographers turned out. To avoid their curiosity, Boss...
Richard Wagner can hardly be called a light composer, and Gustav Mahler is certainly about as weighty a symphonist as it is possible to find. The combination of the works of these two men into this week's concerts by the Boston Symphony is therefore somewhat ever-powering...
...with the new extension of the Riverside Drive parkway under the George Washington Bridge, the shades of night which had long since fallen, and a feeling of vague satisfaction about the football situation--what, as we have said with all these mingled elements the lights of Gotham presented a somewhat unfamiliar picture. We managed to get around a couple of the rotaries and then after a few moments of blind flying found ourselves inexplicably and inextricably in Central Park. A friendly soul had told us that the third right would bring us out but the third right seemed...
Your problem is a not uncommon one. I had somewhat the same trouble when I was in college myself. It is a matter of common knowledge that prolonged concentration on a small dull colored object, particularly when accompanied by a low murmuring sound, is a very effective method of hypnosis. In my day I used to combat the effects by thinking of something particularly ghastly, like boiled turnips. But now, with college food so good, you will have to think of something else. There is an ugly rumor, however, that a dish called Vienna "Lead" Roll is still being served...