Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Smith). His Kai Lung stories, which first began to appear 37 years ago and have been coming out at lengthy intervals ever since, have long delighted patient readers on both sides of the Atlantic. Their low-keyed humor, chess-game pace and subacid satire give them an effect somewhat less than sidesplitting, but for readers who like their slyness slow and stately, Ernest Bramah is a lordly dish. And The Return of Kai Lung shows that his salt has not lost its savor for being kept so long in the attic...
Also your translator seems to have blundered somewhat. "Gaibt gore nix drum fer maid hame nemma" means "doesn't care at all for taking girls home," not "likes to take a girl home." At the most, taking "gabit gore nix drum" as an understatement, it might mean "doesn't mind," but "likes" would be "gleicht," derived from the German adjective "gleich," meaning equal, similar, like...
...ways that no one had anticipated. Far from churning out a record quantity of important legislation, it had turned out almost none. Far from advancing the President's program, it had all but stopped it in its tracks. But if the 75th Congress' positive achievements were somewhat negative, its negative achievements were sensationally positive. Last week, casting up the balance, political observers unanimously agreed that whatever Congress had done in 1937, what it had not done was infinitely more important, so important that some believed the President would call a special session in the fall...
...bill to reorganize the administrative branch of the Government, create two new Cabinet departments, give the President six special assistants. The House passed separate bills, authorizing part of the program. The special Senate Committee reported favorably a somewhat different bill, but action was postponed till next session...
After a police motor squad had patrolled the course, the heats began. In the third heat, Jack Wyatt, of Anderson, Ind., wrecked his car by crashing into a dog. After five hours, the crowd, somewhat thinned by the inescapable monotony of the spectacle provided by small boys coasting down a hill, saw the final heat. Robert Ballard, 12, of White Plains, N. Y., got the checkered flag as he rolled across the finish line first to win the U. S. championship, a silver trophy, a diamond-set gold medal and a four-year scholarship to any State university he might...