Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house's interior immediately suggests the unusual. There are nineteen oddly proportioned rooms within this seemingly small frame. The rambling corridors are somewhat analogous to the canals of Venice. They become alternately wide and narrow as they wind. They lower a few steps, then rise a few steps. They give way to an immense hall when one least expects it, and to a glass-encased balcony which is still stranger and more intruiging...
...Hingle is somewhat uneven in the title role. But the second half, particularly, forces him to tap depths of which few suspected him even capable. Here, sorely afflicted and afflicted with sores, he stays hunched over on his knees for half an hour. And here he touches greatness; to find a just comparison, one must go all the way back to Lon Chaney Sr.'s title-role performance in the 1922 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
Both teams used a man-to-man defense, and employed somewhat similar offenses. Brown worked off a high pivot, usually Poulsen, while the Crimson most often cut around center McClellan in attempts to get clear...
...Sixth Happiness. Ingrid Bergman brings religion to the heathen Chinee, and the customers get a massive (2 hr. 37 min.) helping of highly flavored but somewhat indigestible missionary stew...
...that he is taking the suggestion of allowing typing on examinations under advisement. "What the Dean means to say," his secretary points out, "is No." The New York Times Fund for the Needy announces its donation to Nathan P., who is supporting a large family. Unfortuntely the allotment falls somewhat short of the requested $85.5 million...