Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, government officials, realizing the old boy to be something of a menace to paleface citizens-he carried a long knife and was somewhat irascible-enclosed a part of his land with a high, man-proof, woven-wire fence and put him inside. A comfortable house was built for him and an Indian man and wife were employed to care for him. At first, he resented his caretakers, running them off the place with the knife and he absolutely refused to sleep in the house. When he became slightly more reconciled, an elaborate teepee was built...
...somewhat dubious commentary on public feeling were minor elections held in Michigan last week. In Flint a union-supported city ticket was merely an also-ran, and Flint's county (Genesee), which previously voted New Deal, went Republican, as did five of eight industrial counties, but not Detroit (Wayne County). Of nine State officers elected (on unofficial returns), six were Democrats...
...conclude I should like to praise two contributions by John Day which fall somewhat outside the unity I have attempted to see in this issue. One is a review of "The Late George Apley", the other a well-buttressed sensible plea for the creation of an athletic endowment fund at Harvard. If undergraduate criticism of academic administration were always as judicious as this last, it might become an instrument of real service to the University...
Under the double lash of the British Army and Victorian conventions Burton had subsided only somewhat. Under Isabel's expert management ("I have domesticated and tamed Richard a little," she wrote) he broke out less often but no less lustily. In his last years at Trieste, an old man by now. Burton one day routed Isabel's swanky afternoon circle of women by stalking into their midst, glowering, to display a manuscript titled A History of Farting...
...dismissal from the 1936 Olympic team. "I had a whole month over there to train for my event, and I never intended to train on the boat." She asserted Olympic athletes ought to be old enough to be allowed to do what they see fit, then added, somewhat paradoxically, that the bar in the athletes' quarters should have been closed...