Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sharing a common experience with Mr. Lonsdale's German shepherds, and am now glad to learn from the Head's own lips that canines and humans are equally amenable to his educational methods. Rousseau and all these other modern pedagogues may think that boy-training is a somewhat subtler process than dog-training, but that's obviously poppycock. Come on, old dogs, three rousing barks for the Head...
...stand above their sovereignty. And why was that? Because these nations did not recognize, as individuals within a nation did, the same basic laws; they were not parts of the same society. The Communist leaders had known this for 40 years; the 1947 U.N. Assembly session learned it, somewhat reluctantly...
...comparative amounts the University holds in bonds, common stocks, and real estate have shifted somewhat since 1936. Thirty-three percent of the total is now invested in government bonds. The University held no government bonds at all in 1936. Holdings in common stocks have also increased from twenty-nine percent in 1936 to thirty-six percent in 1947. Sign of the times: this trend continued during 1946-47, when the University added $6 million to its common stock investments. Claflin attributes to "larger dividends from common stocks" the fact that in 1947 balances were more favorable than in 1946. Both...
Since the lights went on in the glassed-in case Monday, crowds four and five deep have jammed the alcove in Widener. "We were thinking of selling tickets," said one library official jokingly. Reaction to the model is somewhat standardized...
...they did not hate them all equally. The downy-cheeked American boys who whistled at the fraüleins were a nuisance; but the Russians were a terror. To mark the difference in the way they felt, the Munich police gave a party last week to say a somewhat fearful farewell to U.S. Brigadier General Walter J. Muller. Forty cops sang The Beautiful Blue Danube for him. Many Germans fear that the U.S. will forget the Danube, the Rhine and the Oder-especially the Oder, where the Russians are. They believe that the Russians at the London Conference will propose...