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Word: somewhat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writer Henry Grunwald also spent many hours with Lisa. Once, when Lisa was having trouble putting on a jacket in a studio, Grunwald gallantly leaped to help her. The photographer, accustomed to letting models shift for themselves, said somewhat scornfully: "I can see you're new to this business." After two weeks' work on the story, Grunwald was an old hand, and so impressed by the smooth way in which Lisa worked with Photographer Penn that he decided to make it the lead of his story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 3, 1949 | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...left hand side of the subway train crossing the Charles St. bridge the next time you're going in town and you'll see, sticking up between the Bunker Hill monument and the Navy Yard cranes, the great red truss of Boston's first big bridge. Stretching somewhat over two miles from City Square, Charlestown to Chelsea Square, the huge double decker is 3000 feet longer than the Golden Gate Bridge and rises 135 feet above the high water level of the Mystic River--the same clearance as the Brooklyn Bridge has over the East River. Carrying one-way traffic...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: CIRCLING THE SQUARE | 10/1/1949 | See Source »

Although parking meters have somewhat alleviated congestion from shoppers autos, they have in no way solved the problem. The only solution lies in the construction of mammoth lots, on the surface, nearby to shopping centers. While working with students on new designs for Cambridge's street system, professor Wagner came up with interesting and significant figures on automobile owners...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Cambridge Fights to Unsnarl Traffic | 9/30/1949 | See Source »

...Here We Are Again" issue of the Record is a somewhat better job than its Cambridge counterpart principally because the Record has better artists. Beginning with a melancholy but extremely eyecatching cover, the issue contains half-a-dozen pictures and cartoons which are really funny, not just silly or amusing. Most of these are the work of two Elis named Kochler and Voulgaris, who seem to be solely responsible for putting their magazine several notches above other college funny papers, including the Lampoon. The rest of this issue consists of some involved and mostly unfunny stories, all based on ancient...

Author: By Arthur R. G. solmssen, | Title: ON THE SHELF | 9/29/1949 | See Source »

...rooms and will be responsible for increased amounts of pantry work, bell duty, and table-waiting. Under last year's program, girls handled three hours' worth of bells and kitchen duty weekly. This year the maximum duty for each girl will be five hours per week and will run somewhat less in the larger halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Revises Eating Shifts, Work System | 9/27/1949 | See Source »

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