Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moral Endeavor Association last week, Chinese witnesses and the dead men's kin were doing their best to help the court-martial try Corporal Aldrich. U.S. authorities hoped the Chinese would be impressed with the fairness and exactness of American justice. But the Chinese frankly found the procedure somewhat opaque...
...following day, going along the street, you'd first see the heels .all by themselves-and then the owners wearing different shoes. Two days later the street scenery changed somewhat: the streets were now spangled with soles. It would be too much to say the customers were delighted...
This staggering total actually means somewhat less than it seems when the effect of postwar price boosts is discounted (in 1939 dollars, it adds up to roughly $10 billion). But, in a reverse way, the price inflation also makes the picture look even rosier. By prompting the postponement of hundreds of building programs until costs go down, it disguises the real-and much greater-size of the nation's active potential to expand. It also testifies to the strength of the confidence on which present expansion is based: industrialists are pushing $1,000,000 projects with no less eagerness...
After the influx of returning World War II veterans, it was hoped that the historic policies of the Legion would be modified to reflect the views of its junior partners, who were considered somewhat less hidebound than the old guard. But so far the hierarchy has held firm. The opinions it expresses, and which are given close attention in Congress, are not and do not pretend to be those of a majority of veterans or even Legionnaires. Rather policies are formulated at the top and passed down to the membership...
...easiest way out of understanding "Nevsky" is to laugh at it and it is true that some very funny cracks go around the Old South when the crowd there is small. However, a somewhat new experience can be had by giving oneself up to the movie's naive strength. Nevsky is a superhuman hero, completely shove the bourgeois jealousies and physical frailties of mere man, and so is, and should be, repugnant to American audiences. Consequently, the picture cannot be taken seriously or realistically, but as a work of art it is simple, strong, and beautifully organized...