Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years after he hit Greeley, Buzz was an enterprising nobody. Then in 1934 he tied up with Greeley's KFKA, a radio station in somewhat the same situation. He caught ranchers at breakfast daily in seven States with three-quarters of an hour of weather, livestock & feed prices, good humor, a singing cowboy and a guitar-twanging cowgirl with Bar X names (Claude Redman, Esther Gibson), plenty of come-ons for the Greeley Cash Auction Market. He put his auction pit on the air twice a week, took microphones out on the range for farm sales...
...matter of democracy in the conduct of Harvard's affairs, and it can be appreciated only by surveying fully a background which includes the formal democracy of President Eliot and the benevolent dictatorship of President Lowell. Now the Faculty, stung by the Administration's hasty and somewhat arbitrary action in the acceptance of the Committee of Eight's report, is once more demanding a greater voice in management. Although the final result may come only in the long run, here too the Administration must show a willingness to make concessions...
...course the tendency in judging the Yardlings is to look for stars with weight with a view to working them into the varsity. In that respect this present squad has been somewhat disappointing; there aren't any Spreyers or Lees here, but the brand of football displayed Saturday was aggressive and good, and should win more games before the season is over...
From then on the Stahleymen were somewhat erratic, failing to reach pay dirt again until the third quarter, although they had possession of the ball about nine-tenths of the time. Worcester's only offensive drive in the entire contest came after the half, with a couple of end runs which accounted for slight gains...
...Roosevelt last week fired two barrels at unhappy Mr. Johnson, unhappily for the War Department did not fire either Mr. Johnson or Mr. Woodring. Somewhat musty ammunition for the first shot was supplied by Secretary Woodring himself. At a Cabinet meeting he brought to Mr. Roosevelt's attention a book which appeared last August with an approving foreword by Louis Johnson. Adjusting Your Business to War is a handbook for industrialists, based on a now outmoded plan for mobilizing their resources in wartime. Mr. Roosevelt publicly remarked that no book on Army, Naval or kindred subjects bears the administration...