Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even a year afterwards that one Allan Walton Gould, a man "always somewhat inclined to books," reaped the first rewards of Bancroft's generosity. Gould studied for a year in Leipzig under the fellowship and returned to become a tutor at Harvard and finally a Unitarian Minister. His class's 30th anniversary book was somewhat scandalized by the report that he had once held a post in a church "reputed to be radical...
They met in an effort to frame a Republican approach to the European Recovery Program-an approach which would differ somewhat from Senator Vandenberg's participation in the so-called bipartisan foreign policy. Republicans wanted to make sure that whatever total amount was appropriated for ERP was really necessary, and that the administration of ERP would be in competent hands. They also wanted to find a way in which the Republican Congress could put its label on the plan...
...week's end, only one situation in China seemed no worse (and perhaps somewhat better) than usual: in Shanghai, the economic police held the currency black market in control by arresting illegal exchange operators...
...this point, the Feng chronicle becomes somewhat dizzying...
Cunning. When Bill Boone and his wife enter the story they run off with it. Bill is short, stocky, cocky, with "a good-looking squarish face," now somewhat puffy, always getting in fights, which he always loses. He is an expert with dice, and has a pathetic eagerness for a respectable job that makes him vulnerable to his wife's malice. Bill is dragged out of a bar, sobered up, and hired as Pineboro's only salaried fireman. Some day he plans to be fire chief. The turn of the screw is that his brother...