Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious that slender (148 Ibs.) Dave Freeman was no classic stylist. His smash was somewhat less than devastating, his wrist-flick deception shots not the game's most subtle or varied. But like Bitsy Grant, the once-mighty mite of tennis, he made incredible gets. His knees were always scratched and bloody after a tough match...
...Lute Player made the goddess look more human than divine, for his brush managed to suggest the blood beneath the opalescent skin and to impart a warmth that no marble could match. Compared with Titian's, even such latter-day Technicolor Venuses as Lana Turner seemed somewhat anemic...
...Benedict Center was established in 1940 by a group of Harvard Catholics as a somewhat more independent version of the Newman Clubs (for Catholic students) in other universities. But when Father Feeney became the center's spiritual director seven years ago, it soon began to grow into a full-dress academic institution, teaching Greek, church history, philosophy, literature and hagiography. More than 200 students were converted to Catholicism there, and 103 members and guests of the club felt called to become priests or nuns. This year, 50 members, about 20 of them converts, paid $200 a semester. Four nights...
Coach Dick Merryman will possibly shift the defensemen to tighten up the defense, which was somewhat shaky in last Wednesday's game with Governor Dummer. Captain Bill Spence is the only sure starter at defense, while the other two men will be picked from Ned Normal was has started all the games so far. Godfrey Birckhead. Jay Byrne, and Stan Brager, another regular starter...
Opinion on students manners seemed to be somewhat mixed. The majority of the girls agreed that most of the freshmen were well versed in their manners. One irate fiftyish maiden bitterly attacked the '52s, claiming that "they're all messy slobs, and I'd hate to be their mothers...