Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...delight the "bigger-and-better" gentlemen, but should make all those interested in the quality of our education stop and reflect. In England, which has a population of forty-three million, there are approximately forty-six thousand students in the institutions of higher learning. In France the ratio is somewhat higher. In this country, on the other hand, eight hundred thousand out of a population of one hundred and seventeen million were attending the universities...
...course the plot comes to the natural conclusion: Orloff is found out, and Nicole Picot, bitterly disillusioned, none-the-less stands by him to the end, ending up by marrying her true lover, English diplomat Anthony Wayne. This commonplace plot is somewhat remedied by the acting of Francis and Rains, and in case you're interested in women's dresses, there's always the fashion show put on at the Maison Picot...
Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston...
...wages of other workmen. In plants we visited the directors were all men of between 35 and 40. The average age of the workers was between 23 and 27. The best organization seemed to be in factories where the conveyor-belt system is in operation. The factory tempo is somewhat slower than in the United States. About a quarter of the workers in all factories we visited were women who appeared to be doing exactly the same kind of work as men. The youth of the Soviet workers and engineers and managers was striking. Laboratories are well developed everywhere...
...exhibition Dodo Borchardt- Sattler's water colors and drawings. This painter is the wife of the famous geographer and explorer, Paul Borchardt. Close first-hand observation of animals in Africa has enabled her to draw absolutely true-to-life pictures. All here works are brilliantly colored, but she is somewhat under the pessimism and hatred of mankind that affected the German artists of the early part of the century. This does not prevent her, however, from composing often with a lightness of touch and humorous approach which make her drawings very pleasing...