Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge was Sir John Hawke, former Attorney General to the Prince of Wales. Appearing somewhat confused, he first asked, "How did this case come here?" Up rushed a clerk to whisper vigorously through Sir John's wig, and Mr. Justice Hawke was then heard to say, "Yes, yes, I see. I have been told...
...Times" system will be somewhat complicated by the well-known moving electric sign which runs across the face of their building, and disappears, never to be seen again, somewhere in the general direction of 42nd Street. For slower readers this proves an insurmountable handicap, and men who have missed more than half the dispatch have also been known to disappear in the general direction of 42nd Street...
...Thoma conducted a musical test in the zoo to determine which chimpanzee was the most impressionable. "When the animals' curiosity toward the instruments." he reported, "had abated somewhat-they tried to tear the instruments away from us and play on them themselves-I discovered, to my surprise, that a soulful modern tango made a greater impression than an equally modern but turbulent foxtrot." Most fascinated by the music was a 7-year-old male named Peter. Dr. Thoma therefore went to work on Peter. The psychologist succeeded in fixing Peter's attention on a shiny metal knob, which...
Daughters of Atreus (by Robert Turney; Delos Chappell, producer) is a high-minded, somewhat arty, occasionally tedious and pictorially beautiful synthesis of several Greek legends of family murder, with each of its three acts corresponding to a whole play as handled by Euripides and Aeschylus. It is the first produced play of Author Turney who. now nearing 40, is reported to have nursed its idea ever since he left Columbia University. In the part of Clytemnestra it presents, in her U. S. debut, a German actress of considerable reputation named Eleonora Mendelssohn...
...eradication of syphilis were to be my one official duty during the next 20 years I should attempt it very confidently with a budget substantially less than that which has been expended during the past 20 years for a single animal disease- bovine tuberculosis. Syphilis can be fought somewhat more cheaply. Tuberculous cows must be destroyed and paid for in full, regardless of the financial status of the owner. The human beings now suffering with syphilis, certainly the new infectious cases, usually can be cured and restored to normal life...