Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ring last week, punching hard in another round. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Burney reiterated that 1) all smokers have a higher death rate from lung cancer than nonsmokers, 2) heavy and long-continued cigarette smoking goes with the highest lung-cancer death rate, and 3) it helps somewhat to quit smoking, even after years of indulgence. But this time Dr. Burney went farther, added: "No method of treating tobacco or filtering the smoke has been demonstrated to be effective in materially reducing or eliminating the hazard of lung cancer...
...foot in the graveyard. He takes a paternal interest in some 900 well-paid employees and issues periodic denunciations of other cemeteries, which, as a Forest Lawn Art Guide once put it, "cry out men's utter hopelessness in the face of death." To this statement Novelist Waugh somewhat tartly replied that "by far the commonest feature of other graveyards is still the Cross, a symbol in which previous generations have found more Life and Hope than in the most elaborately watered evergreen shrub...
Galbraith praised the results of the American aid policy in Europe, but also blamed that policy indirectly for the government's current dollar loss. So much attention has been devoted to European economics, he explained, that the American financial situation has been somewhat neglected...
...sophomores have looked well so far, but their effectiveness at defensive play had yet to be proved. It can only be built up in game competition, which makes the varsity's hopes, for the early part of the season at least, somewhat dubious. With the needed game experience, however, Weiland feels the team is certainly capable of picking up the league title...
...Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life...