Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roman Catholic Church, in theory, never recognizes divorce at all. In practice, however, under certain (and somewhat elastic) circumstances, it "annuls" a previous marriage...
...also complements the news, whereby it is taken for granted that one keeps up somewhat with the daily papers (here, American readers have an advantage). In addition, it gives later published facts about subjects that are in the center of the news, thus being able to bring off a good, all-round article about an event which has not yet been cleared up in the daily papers (e.g., the Pearl Harbor scandal...
Rachmaninoff: The Bells (Hollywood First Methodist Choir, Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Rachmilovitch conducting; Disc, 8 sides). A somewhat murky musical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe. Performance: fair...
...League of Nations. As one of the jurists appointed to draw up the statute for the Permanent Court of International Justice, he worked out a formula that won support for the Court from both great & small powers. Those were great days for Fernandes. He has not forgotten them, and somewhat wistfully has hoped that at Rio oldtime formality could be recaptured by the wearing of white ties at plenary session...
Possessed. Joan Crawford and Van Heflin do a lot for a somewhat vapid psychiatric story (TIME, June...