Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become. Almost a million prescriptions have been ordered and mailed to Roosevelts, Longfellows, and such in the States; to less well-known patrons in Siberia, Greenland, and even Tibet. Techniques of compounding potions have changed little since the customers wore string ties and bustles, but the products are somewhat different. Patent medicines are less in demand now, and if there are any home remedies in stock, they are dwarfed by a modern refrigerator that holds biological scrums and penicillin. Business is strictly ethical, and though students may use the store telephone to schedule a rendezvous, they know better than...
...Survivors," far from meaning harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little more than a somewhat melodramatic series of bare repetitions of this concept which, admirable as it may be in itself, requires something more than persistent enunciation to become entertainment. Similarly the Dramatic Club, far from meaning harm, has attempted to resurrect what it believed, along with a small minority of New York drama critics...
...Lewis "somewhat regretfully" accepted the Bridges plan. Van Horn voted Nay. Bridges announced: "We have solved on a temporary basis the differences, subject to further review." Lewis wired his miners: "PENSIONS GRANTED," which was taken to be a signal to go back to work. Lewis still had Judge Goldsborough angrily hovering over him, but he hoped that the sunshine of temporary peace would dissipate that cloud...
...sophomores saw God as "a somewhat arbitrary yet sentimental old man who has a tendency to rap people's knuckles when they don't show him proper respect...
This little book is almost a masterpiece. Particularly in its early chapters (the later ones grow somewhat confused with the ramifications of the feud), it summons up the life of the mountains in the days before the fighting began: little streams, dropping 25 feet to the mile, with names like Grapevine, Blackberry, Sulphur, Sycamore, Turkey and Buffalo; old families of English stock bearing names like Vance, Chafin, Smith, Weddington, Varney, Cline and Trent; forests of oak, cherry, walnut, hickory, linden, beech, sycamore; cabins with quiet hospitality, plenty of food, and courteous, high-strung, honest and proud people...