Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Somewhat obscured by the news of Tufts' election was the four to one victory of the Freshman C team over Tufts College at the University squash courts. Hugh Foster of the Crimson lost a close match to Doleman, while Frank Cabot, Ralph Earle, Phil Emerson, and Steve Mead defeated their opponents...
...attack in the first half scoring spree, as he hit the hoop for eleven points. Frank Lionette and Chuck Bryntesen helped out with seven and six tallies apiece, before Coach Berg called off the dogs and put in his second team. The spirited but outclassed Huntington squad did somewhat better against the subs, but their own inaccuracy from the floor cut down the score as much as the opposition play...
...course--involving a Quaker widow and two clients of her boarding house: the famous, dashing Senator Burr of New York and a shot, clumsy congressman called James Madison. After spirited oratory, the relatively meek Madison inherits the landlady, later to become immortalized in song and story under the somewhat shady epithet of "Dolly...
Nomination and election procedures will be somewhat more complicated under the new system. As finally constituted, the Council will consist of one man elected from each House, two Seniors, two Juniors, three Sophomores, and two Freshmen, in an advisory capacity, appointed by the Union Committee. House representatives will be nominated in open meetings to be held in each House, while the class representatives will be chosen by a 12-man nominating board...
...various White Papers and promises which have been made, or who examines the history of the Holy Land, can call the Jewish claim legally tenuous or based on weak evidence. What Wald might have said, with less fear of contradiction, is that the Arabs also have a somewhat legitimate claim. The existence of valid conflicting claims is the main cause of the present dispute, nor are the people who espouse either side completely without intelligence...