Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is an old Massachusetts Blue Law that a man may not kiss his wife on Sunday. Equally absurd, but somewhat less hilarious, is a forty-year-old ruling of the Harvard Administrative Board that rigidly pegs the dates for Spring and Summer term make-ups squarely in the center of the October hour exam period. An inflexible examination schedule that could conceivably force a man to take a three-hour final and two hour exams in one day not only places an undue strain on the student, but also leads to unsatisfactory grades in both testing groups. Only those...
...suffers from failings of the plot when situations arise which either couldn't or just wouldn't happen. Joan Webster setting to sea in a small boat with the North sea equivalent of a typhoon approaching is almost credible. The naval officer going along against his better judgment is somewhat less credible. But when they are being swept into a whirlpool with the engine completely waterlogged, it requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy ending never would...
...throw off the Soviet yoke since 1918. A group of Ukrainian partisans under a 25-year-old leader named Lakhidnya had fought their way to the U.S. zone last summer. Since then, they have been filtering through in small detachments. They cannot be classed as D.P.s. So the somewhat baffled U.S. military authorities have interned them in a barracks in Bavaria...
Beyond Diplomacy. If Fischer sounds bemused as a Gandhi-man, he is somewhat more lucid as a critic of Stalin. To him, the "political war is visible and tangible. Every day's newspaper is a battle bulletin of that war. ... It is easy to say 'We must meet Russia halfway.' We have met Russia 90 percent of the way. But Russia does not meet us even 10 percent of the way. . . . The entire problem of the relations between Russia and America, or between dictatorship and the democracies, has gone beyond the field of diplomacy. . . . This...
Besides atendting to his duties in the army, Kopp naturally spent a good part of his time around the football field, where he turned his attention to the U-Conn line. He was to regret this somewhat on his release when, having been mustered out, and having joined Dick Harlow, he found himself face to face with a tough U-Conn forward wall in the 1946 Harvard opener. The Kopp-trained Connecticut line gave the Kopp-trained Crimson line quite a tussle that day, as Crimson fans will remember...