Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean DeVane was somewhat more helpful. He volunteered the names of two more alleged Communists, with whom Mr. Cohen was accused of association...
...caring for his young bride (who died after a year and a half of marriage), Emerson revolted against what he called the "official goodness" of his position. The arguments that led to his resigning his pastorate (his refusal to administer the Lord's Supper) seem somewhat unreal in this account; more clearly traced is his growing conviction that the only way he could be a good minister was to leave the ministry...
...many of the facts in the book are new that no such characterization can do it justice. Almost every page of this biography yields some new or little-known fact about Emerson or his contemporaries, and if the first result is to make his life seem slow and somewhat sad, the final one is likely to make his career seem even more extraordinary and his achievement even greater...
Barry Turner will oppose Murphy and try to check a club which has exploded for 12, 16, 16, and 22 runs in four sundry games. Harvard, generally unstable at the start of the season, seems headed in the right direction for the home stretch but is still somewhat unpredictable...
University policy is somewhat nebulous regarding the actual return of bluebooks to students; in general this is left to the discretion of the instructors. Many instructors are all too glad to part with corrected exams; others will at least allow students to examine their bluebooks. Some contribute stacks of old exams to waste-paper drives. Obviously a uniform policy is needed, not only permitting a student to see his paper, but to keep it if he chooses...