Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lovely is not a word that comes often or naturally to the lips of Kansas Citians themselves. They are aware of their slums and stockyards as well as of their elm-shaded streets and comfortable homes. The city is self-conscious about its culture and somewhat nostalgic about its hell-raising past, and looks down its nose at drab Kansas City, Kansas "across the viaduct." Only 225 miles from the geographical center of the U.S., it has the drive of the East, the traditions of the South (e.g., separate schools for Negroes), and the friendliness and vigor of the West...
Although much of the support for reinstatement of the optional system has come from Club men, this is not an altogether accurate appraisal of the situation. An estimated 40 percent of the college introduces a somewhat different consideration, since many of those who do spend weekends at home can not well afford to pa for the meals they do not eat at college. There is a large group also who do not eat all their meals, breakfasts for instance, whose financial condition is not necessarily such that they should pay for them...
Granted there is much to be said for the type of socialism which the compulsary 21 meal contract involves. If an option were to be given for 10 or 14 meal contracts, the rate for the full 21 would have to be raised somewhat is order to lower the rate to any extent for the limited contract basis. But it is not purely a question of those who can afford paying for meals they do not eat in order to help those who cannot afford. Because of the diversity of the groups involved and the position of the administration...
...probable annoyance of Arthur Valpey, 25 candidates for the Varsity soccer team next fall held a cheerful and disorganized scrimmage yesterday afternoon on the field next to the enclosed football practice area. Somewhat hampered by short wind and an inability to stand up, the booters spend considerable time lofting wild kicks over the fence into Valpey's spinning fullback formations...
...withdrawal of midterm grade reports from the Dean's Office listings will alter somewhat the administration of probation. Although, as Kennedy pointed out, men with two or more courses "primarily for Freshmen" can expect grades to be returned in November and April, most upperclassmen will have opportunities to go on and off probation only in February and June...