Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After all the waiting, the names proved somewhat anticlimactic. "Respectable," said the London Times, rather unchivalrously, "but hardly exciting." Added the Daily Telegraph: "The list makes history -without unduly disturbing it." Absent were the expected names of sharp-tongued, Virginia-born Lady Astor, the first lady to sit in Britain's Parliament, and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, busy daughter of the late Prime Minister Sir Herbert Henry Asquith. Also missing: the Viscountess Rhondda, who died last week...
When a scholar has finished mining his Ph.D. from a library or laboratory, he is likely to be repaid almost as scantily in prestige as he is in pork chops. In fact, he is lucky if he is not stereotyped as "a bumbling, woolly-minded theorist, somewhat timid, thoroughly impractical, unfit for any other occupation." So says Harold Seymour, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Manhattan's Finch College, who deplores the low self-esteem of the scholars of high degree. His remedy, proposed in the Educational Record: henceforth, all Ph.D.s should insist that they be addressed as "Doctor...
...many other consumer hard goods turned down. Last week, in a report that was as heartening as it was authoritative, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, often called upon to test consumer attitudes for the Federal Reserve Board, reported that beneath the consumer's somewhat hesitant exterior still beats a buying heart of gold...
Even in West Germany, where the index of industrial production in May of this year slipped a fraction below the 1957 level, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard told the Bundestag: "I do not doubt that the pulse of our economy is somewhat weaker...
...Sutjeska battlefield: "No one can break us." Nasser himself, by visiting Tito at this point, was making the most audacious affront to the Soviets he had ever risked. According to Cairo scuttlebutt, Nasser returned from his recent 17-day state visit to Russia bored by too many banquets and somewhat unimpressed. He also came home with no more Russian rubles, though reportedly the kind of Russian help he likes most-complete diplomatic backing in his troublemaking-costs Russia not a ruble. Long ago, Tito, from painful experience, warned Nasser against ever letting himself get too financially dependent on Russia...