Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latins were somewhat startled when the U.S. turned up voting for India's unpredictable Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. Eleven ballots have been taken, including two this week, and neither Manuilsky nor Mrs. Pandit has won the necessary two-thirds vote, because the Latin Americans and the rest of the Western bloc are split...
...Still somewhat groggy from injuries and bruises received in previous games, Dick Harlow's men will lineup today without a single contact scrimmage under their belts this week. With Houston and Pierce out of action, the Stadium crowds can expect to see a brand new brace of starting tackles, Dean Markham and John Gorczynski. Nick Rodis appears ready to take some of the pressure off these two, but after that, the quality of the material is pretty diluted...
Manny Aguirre and Carlos Blanco, both of whom started last week against Amhert for the Crimson, are not available this week because of nuptial obligations in New York while the Green is somewhat banged up from their game with Army last week...
Just after his illness, his old, admired friend Gifford Maxim turned up to tell Laskell that he had left the Communist Party and was afraid the Communists would kill him. Laskell thought Maxim was being unduly melodramatic, but got him a job on a liberal magazine (which sounds somewhat like the Nation, where Professor Trilling's wife is fiction critic). Laskell had a hard time staying a "liberal," but after much soul-searching he succeeded...
...Boston were a closed corporation and they the only stockholders. In a sense, their view was justified. "These institution men did not themselves necessarily run the mills and the railroads and the banks and the insurance companies, but they ran the men who did. To a somewhat smaller extent, but still to a considerable one, the inheritors of their positions continue to do so and thus continue to give Boston Society its appearance of permanence." Groton Headmaster Endicott...