Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chances are good that the Crimson will win this afternoon and thus will meet the Eli squad with a record of seven victories and three losses. Middlesex is only in its second year of lacrosse, and the somewhat experienced Crimson ten will have a decided advantage...
...increased amount of waiting on table, pantry work, and bell duty. Maids will continue to take care of public rooms, bath rooms, and corridors. No girl will have to give up more than five hours per week toward the work program and the number of hours will probably run somewhat less in the larger halls...
...here & there, nervous and anxious. Minority Leader Joe Martin took the floor to defend the softened version of the Taft-Hartley Act (the Wood bill), which was backed by the Republican-Southern coalition. Then Rayburn's compromise package was introduced. Sam himself stepped out on the floor. Eloquently, somewhat defensively, he appealed for votes for his measure: "Let us not have one sector of Americans known as labor . . . believe that we would press down upon their brow a crown of thorns...
Surgery "of a somewhat crude nature" then does what it can to repair the damage. It can shut off some of the abnormal impulses by nerve-cutting operations such as vagotomy, or cut out diseased thyroids and hunks of stomach. But Surgeon Ogilvie has what he regards as more effective treatment: proper doses of idleness, for "idleness is a part of function." A change of occupation is often a good thing, too. The mind that has been driven too hard may do its best work when tension is relaxed and it is allowed "to find the natural paths that shape...
Penn, a high-stroking, "sprint" crew was especially formidable over the short distance, but the Crimson's job was somewhat lightened by the fact that the Quakers' shell veered off the course until it came dangerously near the beach...