Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Star Leopold Stokowski makes a somewhat wooden actor when he is caught off his podium, but with his feet on their accustomed ground he gives a spirited imitation of Stokowski facing the music. That it is an imitation is largely owing to the technical complications involved in the making of musical films. The orchestral music in 100 Men & a Girl was actually played in Philadelphia by Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra, recorded in eight sound tracks instead of the usual one. The orchestra men who appear on the screen are simply Hollywood musicians going through the motions, with Stokowski presiding...
...tough question of the atomic architecture inside the molecule has yielded somewhat to the discovery that it must conform to mathematical limitations grouped under "stoichiometrical law." Stanley's tobacco mosaic virus, for example, was found to be not a long, thin chain but roughly egg-shaped...
...little more wallop than the New Republic, the New Republic with having a little finer literary quality than the Nation. Politically they are not far apart. According to Editor-Owner Freda Kirchwey, the Nation "has followed a left-liberal policy all the way through, and it has shifted somewhat further to the left as times have changed." The New Republic, says Editor Bruce Bliven, is "working along every front to do away with repression, hunger, insecurity, injustice of all kinds, particularly...
...ventilate the whole situation, Premier van Zeeland insisted on a special meeting of Parliament. King Leopold, whose favorite Premier is Paul van Zeeland, may delay the meeting till passions have cooled somewhat. Well he knew that though Paul van Zeeland might be personally guiltless, it was his duty as Premier to know what monkey business the directors of the State bank of issue were indulging...
...groups or singly, the dancers do such steps-mostly of Negro origin-as the Black Bottom, "shag," Suzi-Q, Charleston, "truckin'," as well as old square-dance turns like London Bridge, and a formation which resembles an Indian Rain Dance. The Big Apple invariably ends upon a somewhat reverent note, with everybody leaning back and raising his arms heavenward. This movement is called "Praise Allah." Through it all, the "caller" shouts continuously-"Truck to the right. . . . Reverse it. . . . To the left. . . . In place. . . . Stomp that right foot. . . . Swing it. . . . All right, shine. . . . Suzi-Q to the right. . . . Praise Allah...