Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always somewhat distressing, as the opening of the baseball season rolls around, to see writers all over the country scurry to their typewriters and proudly name the New York Yankees as their carefully considered choice to win the American League pennant. Such action on the part of loyal New York sports-writers is, of course, understandable, but to have this prediction spread to every corner of the United States is quite another matter...
There is of course the possibility that no amount of protection against fall-out will be of any use. However as much as possible should be done, and it is a matter of somewhat dry amusement that two branches of the administration with specifically defined activities should bother to concern themselves with a jurisdictional struggle. The administration's committee is the most sensible way of resolving the situation and should quickly and effectively clear away what otherwise might have been a bothersome snarl...
...trip was probably both valuable and encouraging, although, with the defection of traditional rivals like North Carolina and Duke, the opposition was somewhat less than formidable. Most of the teams the varsity faced, according to Barnaby, have one or two very good men, and then "taper off very rapidly...
...muscled minions, according to the Peking press, "resolutely pledged themselves to overcome all difficulties and all individualist ideas existing in their innermost minds, and strive to become the vanguard on the physical-culture front." Chen himself gave due credit to patriotic inspiration. "During the jerk event, I was somewhat nervous," said he, "but just then I looked down at the responsible comrades of our country's athletic association. This indeed meant the ideas of the party were in me, encouraging me. This strengthened my determination...
Nicholas Constantine Christofilos is a rumpled, somewhat obstreperous lone wolf in the ordered ranks of modern physicists. He has no degrees in physics, little formal training. But time and again, he has brought forth ideas that have proved right...