Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hauser is somewhat irritated by those who think "there's something funny about my wanting to give something away." Says he: "The best things in life are free. I'm a poor philanthropist." Sample poem...
Tackle Jon Jenkins, a somewhat more rugged individual, is credited with being the strongest man ever to go to the Hanover school, at least in the history of their peculiar military-type strength test. Jenkins, besides piling up the highest score on record, also piles up opposing ballcarriers with amazing consistency...
...Macbeth" is an unparalleled achievement for American motion pictures and another bright, if somewhat unpreened, feather in the cap of Mr. Wellcs...
Captain Edward Hensch of Houston, Tex. was scheduled for a 2 p.m. take-off from Frankfurt's Rhein-Main airport on his second round to Berlin that day. He stopped in the operations room to collect his copilot, 1st Lieut. William Baker of Los Angeles. Baker was holding, somewhat awkwardly, a bunch of flowers he had received that morning from a grateful family at Tempelhof airdrome. The Germans are always turning up with flowers and the airmen are always embarrassed (but pleased too). More painful than the actual donation is the necessity of carrying the flowers into the operations...
Success had been somewhat frightening to Novelist Joseph Stanley Pennell, whose History of Rome Hanks stirred up violent opinions in 1944. "Naturally I hope my new book, Nora Beckham, will have as much success as my first," he confided to Reporter Jim Goodsell for the Portland Oregonian. "But I won't mind if it creates less of a tempest. It was a little unnerving to be compared, all in one week, with Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Judas Iscariot...