Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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State authorities have worked out a program which they hope will case the somewhat tight situation now existing. "The Department of Public Health, working with the Red Cross . . . is already supplying much-needed plasma and fractional blood, and to as great an extent as possible, whole blood," said Strawson...
...Fred Pearson, performing in his final Blue-Crimson battle, who injected a bit of the spectacular into what was otherwise a somewhat colorless 60 minutes, by connecting for two quick tallies in the space of one minute in the middle of the second period...
Birds in Their Little Nests. After the last of many temperamental disagreements with Sullivan, Gilbert retired to the country, where he became a somewhat eccentric justice of the peace. "Had you been a gentleman," he said to a chauffeur whom he had just fined ?5 for reckless driving, "I should have fined you ten." Gilbert himself bought an American Locomobile-in which he promptly ran over a bicycling curate and sent his own wife flying into a hedge. "She looked like a large and quite unaccountable bird's nest," he mused...
...cannot be evaluated with mathematical exactness, and the grader cannot be completely objective no matter how hard he may try to prevent his personal views from affecting the mark he assigns a blue book. But the number of complaints from students who felt they had been victimized by methods somewhat less than just indicates that unfairness in the grading system has not been reduced to the unavoidable minimum...
...somewhat prosaic preliminary at the Garden tonight, scheduled to begin at 7:45 o'clock, features Boston College and Boston University...