Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a five-year hegira in both leagues, Lupien was deported to the Pacific Coast League in 1944. Apparently finding the 3000 mile distance from the Hub of the Universe somewhat depressing, he proceeded to confuse the opposition hurlers by speaking grammatically correct English and hitting the ball where there was an absence of outfielders...
...scene is repeated, somewhat more quietly, in proud, sober Ghent and in Bruges, lulled by its gentle chimes, in bustling, muscular Antwerp, in Liège under its pall of soot from the mines and the blast furnaces. Belgium has quietly achieved an almost incredible state: postwar prosperity. What is more, Belgium has largely done it by free enterprise. Or "planned freedom," as Belgians call...
...leading the league in runs batted in. Afield he looked a little slow (his brittle ankles were troubling him again), but he still had the uncanny knack of outguessing the ball that made him the league's top shortstop last year. As a manager, Boudreau has been somewhat less phenomenal. Yet when President Bill Veeck tried to trade Boudreau off last season (the club finished fourth), Cleveland fans flooded Veeck with 10,000 letters demanding that Boudreau be kept. He was on a $50,000-a-year contract...
...season. Those who made it shoveled some $5,000,000 into the mixer; a couple of topflight romantic leads (Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer); a couple of topflight character actors (Charles Laughton and Louis Calhern); the strenuous talents of Director Lewis Milestone; a massive, studious production; and a somewhat bowdlerized version of Erich Remarque's best-selling romance about political derelicts in the limbo of 1939 Paris...
...full flowering of this system put somewhat of a strain of hard-working professors. Men often rose early to give a lecture in the Yard, and then had to trek to Radcliffe a couple of hours later to deliver the same talk. This did not inspire the same high quality for both talks; a man could hardly be expected to master much enthusiasm the second time...