Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Runs the Show? To operate his plan Bevan has appointed 138 executive councils, each composed of 25 members who serve as volunteers, somewhat as do the members of U.S. draft boards. Bevan insisted, in opposition to some of his Socialist colleagues, that the boards remain nonpolitical, i.e., that Conservatives may serve on them. "We have taken money out of medicine," he said. "I will not let politics take hold." British hospitals, virtually all taken over by the Ministry, are run by special hospital boards, usually composed of the same officials who ran them before. In the whole British health service...
Sinclair Lewis' new novel concerns Aaron Gadd, a carpenter by trade, who by a singular series of half-convictions, and somewhat to his own surprise, becomes a missionary to the Sioux Indians...
Thus far The God-Seeker reads somewhat like any other frontier novel, with Martin Arrowsmith cast as Anthony Adverse. When a revival meeting comes to Adams, however, and Aaron, aged 25, finds himself at the mourners' bench without quite knowing how he got there, the book takes on a distinctive air that makes it unusual among drum-and-petticoat books and also among Lewis' own 20 previous novels. Aaron Gadd tries to be a Christian...
...trying to convert the whites to the beliefs of the Indians. Finally he flees with Selene from the wrath of her father, becomes a prosperous builder in St. Paul (after marrying Selene), encourages his workmen to go out on strike, and on the eve of the Civil War is somewhat surprised to find himself smuggling runaway slaves as his father had before...
Yale's squad is much like the BU team. It is more experienced and has a strong offensive attack. But Coach Priddy's defense is in excellent order, and should be able to slow down the Eli somewhat...