Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...horse through its paces. Eleven o'clock finds him downtown at the Banco de Mexico, in spats and morning coat, checking over his investments. Sometimes he growls: "The Revolution has stripped me!" (In 1910 he owned 4,000,000. acres, now has ten.) The atmosphere of ruin is somewhat dissipated when he adds: "Only six servants in a house that once...
Berman referred to a passage in Sumner Welles' book, "Where Are We Heading?" in which the late President Roosevelt expresses the feeling that Russian law is growing more like ours, and ours more like Russia's, but that the two shall always remain somewhat different...
...Remember," he declared, "you're absolutely on your own. It makes you think and act for yourself." Others view boxing as a challenge, realizing they're somewhat timid and forcing themselves to overcome the timidity by climbing in the ring...
...second start this season the freshman basketball squad last night asked somewhat less than inspired in taking a 71-52 drubbing from Northeastern. Crimson inability to penetrate duskies Northeastern defense while the duskies scored freely caused the rout in which John Silk, Northeastern center, scored 36 points...
...same bait that, two months ago, detached Amos 'n' Andy from NBC (TIME, Sept. 20). Reports in the trade said that CBS offered a sizable (but undisclosed) salary for Benny's services. CBS would only confirm that it had bought his program for "somewhat more than...