Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Came four successive victories and then the Elis somewhat outmanned but ready for a last ditch fight. Harvard's main offensive punch in 1941 was Don McNichol, a low-slung bucking back of the Lazzaro type and with a gift for passing. McNichol, in fact, was the only genuine offensive weapon that the team had to offer. In order to produce some semblance of the outside threat which the halfbacks could not provide, canny Dick Harlow devised a series of endaround plays featuring Loren MacKinney. Rugged Defense For McNicol...
...Moscow's Aero Club last spring, the U.S. had assumed the initiative. The Marshall Plan was one expression of it. Its mere promise was already altering political weather forecasts for Western Europe. For their part, the Russians and their friends, like the Comrades who gathered for a somewhat dampening rally in Milan last week (see cut), were putting up umbrellas...
...finished piece of work, and it contains the bright promise that René Clair, one of the few outstanding talents in the film business, may not have finished his real work in the movies. Yet after completing Man About Town, Director Clair returned to Hollywood, an environment that has somewhat cramped his style for years. The sense of something finished hangs over the very conception of the film: it is, primarily and masterfully, an essay on moviemaking...
...somewhat apologetic explanation of the high profits, Steelman Olds emphasized that the full impact of this year's cost and wage increases had yet to be felt. G.M.'s Chairman Alfred P. Sloan pointed out that in comparison to the last prewar year, G.M.'s profits showed a much smaller percentage increase (32%) than either sales (48%) or payrolls...
...year's three-ring defense of the north, or Harvard uprights was aided very materially by the Princeton band, which held souvenir-hungry Bengals immobile in their stands for nearly five minutes with a rendition of the alma mater, "Old Nassau." Finding the proper posts well-guarded, the visitors somewhat illogically tore down their own standards, which were as illogically (and weakly) defended...