Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although this double accounting at first blush seems misleading, and somewhat remeniscent of New Deal Treasury methods, the transfer of compulsory Freshmen sports simply means that the University has begun to take on its own shoulders the responsibility for Harvard's athletics. It follows in direct line with President Contant's policy of eventually setting up an endowment fund large enough to divorce the college activities from dependence on football receipts...
...leaders in Washington. There John L. Lewis had around him some of the shrewdest of Labor's brains. Among them is Sidney Hillman, head of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Among them also is David Dubinsky, whose enthusiasm for the C. I. O. fist is dampened somewhat by the fact that it is popularly identified more with the arm of Lewis than that of Dubinsky. But no internal difference of the C. I. O. hampers their concerted action on practical points. Their drive to organize Steel is estimated to have added already some 100,000 new members to their steel...
...might be expected, the Crown Prince of Selangor. Because the Colonial Office dislike him, British pressure deprived him of his rank and forced in Son No. 3 as Crown Prince. Last week the Sultan of Selangor was reported somewhat feebly attempting to convince William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, Secretary of State for the Colonies, that Malay custom was interfered with when Son No. 2 was also rejected...
...requiring them to place more emphasis on the volume of gasoline sold than on the profits made. By turning dealers loose more or less on their own, they automatically started shaking down an artificial market into a natural one. They were also pleased to think that by creating a somewhat diminished host of little fellows out of a regiment of cogs they were aiding in the Decentralization of business, favored at Washington...
...standards to "the private destinies of individuals." The result is another of those curious hybrid volumes that have recently become numerous in English writing-a long (601 pages), formless book, half-tract and half-fiction, slightly radical, a little scandalous by pre-War standards, not quite a sentimental story, somewhat highbrow, almost good...