Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life becomes somewhat easier for the Cadet once he passes his exams at the end of his first year., but even then it runs no danger of becoming decadent. Failure in a single course at any time leads to immediate dismissal, as may deficiency in physical fitness and a host of other details unheeded in most civilian schools...
...three people that manage to find 4000 jobs between them within a year might be considered somewhat unusual in the field of employment. Especially when those jobs range from walking dogs to teaching Malayan...
...Pauker [TIME, Sept. 20] is no cover girl-not even for the rankest Communist's money ... I have felt that to make the cover of TIME should be somewhat of an honor. Surely we must have in our own country true Americans [who] could more profitably take up the time of your capable artists...
Henry Expands. Busily adding to his empire, Henry Kaiser announced a big deal to expand his Fontana steel mill. As usual, it was somewhat complicated. In return for $60 million worth of Fontana steel, the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Co. (which plans an 1,840-mile natural-gas pipeline from Texas to New York) will help Kaiser finance a $17-million blast furnace to double Fontana's 1,200-ton daily capacity of pig iron...
...Valpey has done an astonishing job. A devotee of punch, rather than duck, he has fashioned a football team that gulps up yardage like every guy was promised a now suit of clothes for a 30-yard run," Nason went on, somewhat more enthusiastically than grammatically...