Word: somewhat
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...compete on the varsity teams. Thus it appears that official recognition, in a sense, has been given to the importance of sports in the daily round of the average undergraduate, as well as to the athlete, and for the University to assume this responsibility and to back up the somewhat straightened Athletic association, is a real step forward in Harvard's educational policy...
...selection of [starred] names," wrote Dr. Schrader, "is made on a basis that is not very clear to me, and I doubt that it is well defined in the mind of the editor himself. ... I regard these elections ... as a somewhat childish albeit amusing pastime, but I understand that in some institutions the possession or lack of a star is taken very seriously and may even be decisive in questions of appointment and promotion. . . . Personally I would much prefer to see the custom of starring abandoned altogether." Dr. Schrader pointed out that "leading scientific workers" may not necessarily be able...
...bishop the finer the cathedral the greater the diocese. Last week, addressing the annual convention of his diocese in Columbus, Bishop Hobson paid his respects to the life of such cathedrals as those in Manhattan and Washington, then continued: "It just happens that the situation in southern Ohio is somewhat different, and perhaps you have a rather strange bishop. . . . If someone came to me today with the offer-'Here's a million-or five million-dollars for your Cathedral,' I would have to reply, 'No thank you.' If you are thinking of a building...
...finds himself engaged to her. His extrication and the return of Camille to the husky footballer who really loves her provide further complications which, although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell in Parmil, an unpleasant maniac in Black Limelight. Apparently no more actionable than a last year's film (Sing, Baby, Sing) along the same story lines, Hitch Your Wagon would probably seem to such an experienced theatre man as John Barrymore rather less amusing...
Hitch Your Wagon's first scene exhibits Rex Duncan (George Curzon), a onetime stage idol who has gone somewhat to pot in Hollywood, having the jitters in a Manhattan sanatorium where his agent (Joseph Sweeney) has placed him because of alcoholic excesses. A shapely young admirer comes in bringing a gift of noodle soup. She turns out to be one Camille Schwartz (Dennie Moore), encouraged to visit Duncan by a stage-struck mother. The actor is charmed by Camille's naive allusions to her simple, bourgeois life, even more fascinated when she deprecates his film appearances but admires...