Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...international aspect of the Chinese problem unfortunately has become somewhat clouded by demands for internal reform. Desirable as such reform may be, its importance is but secondary to the issue of civil strife now engulfing the land, and the two issues are as impossible of synchronization as it would be to alter the structural design of a house while the same was being consumed by fire...
...situation for the Council, Ordinarily, twenty signatures to a petition are required before a group can be chartered. But this technicality should not, in a case when it could be utilized to deny students as effective means of expression, be invoked to prevent a charter. The rule itself is somewhat arbitrary, and in the past it has been circumvented by petitions much more loaded than the present...
...somewhat exaggerated account. Lady Astor and the Des Moines lady, both laughing heartily, did kick out playfully at each other, but neither kick landed. Later, the Des Moines lady reported admiringly: "She talks with her feet as well as her hands...
Original Sin. This grand but somewhat anxious survey of man's fate Dr. Niebuhr clinches with a doctrine of original sin in which he leans heavily upon an insight of Kierkegaard's: "Sin presupposes sin." That is, sin need not inevitably arise from man's anxiety if sin were not already in the world. Niebuhr finds the agent of this prehistoric sin in the Devil, a fallen angel who "fell because [like man] he sought to lift himself above his measure, and who in turn insinuates temptation into human life." Thus, "the sin of each individual...
College sources predicted last night that the new policy would somewhat raise the standard of incoming Freshmen, since good students will not be forced to attend other schools simply because they are accepted there first...