Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France, where smuggling was somewhat less effective, cigarets (worth $15 U.S. a carton) were an international language. One Salazar Teofilo, a young Spaniard, was arrested last week while doing a land-office cigaret business in the semidarkness of the Strasbourg-St. Denis méetro station. Police soon discovered that Teofilo did not speak one word of French. Through an interpreter they learned that he had entered France clandestinely from Spain five months ago, had grossed 60,000 francs ($500) a week on the magic of the only three words he knew outside his native Spanish: "Camels, Luckies, Chesterfields...
...reindeer were a present from Major General Arne Dahl, commander of the Norwegian Army of the North, to the London Zoo. They had already traveled from Alta to Bergen, and had rocked along (their six stomachs somewhat queasy) from Bergen to Newcastle on the S.S. Jupiter, then by rail from Newcastle to London...
...local Communist press reported that he was a thief, a blackmailer, a spy, etc. This time, the Russian Government charged Alexeev with embezzlement and treason, demanded that the U.S. Government turn him over for trial in Russia. This concern led observers to conclude that Fugitive Alexeev was a somewhat bigger bug than he himself had admitted, and that his comments on Soviet life and notables might prove interesting...
...said Dr. James Crabtree of the Public Health Service, immunization has laid diphtheria low. Better sanitation (including fewer flies because of fewer horses) has knocked intestinal infections, such as diarrhea and enteritis, off the top list. Sulfa drugs and penicillin have taken the edge off pneumonia. Tuberculosis has yielded somewhat to better treatment and early X-ray diagnosis. To take their places, non-germ diseases have moved up. Last year's list: 1) heart disease; 2) cancer; 3) cerebral hemorrhage; 4) nephritis; 5) pneumonia and influenza; 6) accidents (except motor vehicle); 7) tuberculosis; 8) diabetes; 9) premature birth...
Unfortunately for his thesis, his most hopeful words for the future have already been somewhat dated by the recent culture purge. Translator Bakshy writes "of a changing attitude in official circles. . . . Playwrights . . . and some theater directors . . . who only a few years ago were constantly badgered ... for either libeling Soviet life or indulging in hothouse estheticism, have lately been awarded the highest honors." On this encouraging (but no longer valid) premise, he concludes: "Perhaps some day the present zeal for using the theater as a means for visual demonstration of copybook maxims (Soviet version) will pass...