Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James Graham pleased Londoners in the 1780s by opening a "Hymeneal Temple." Centerpiece of this edifice was the "Celestial Bed," over which "presided" a pretty young healer named Miss Emma Lyons. Gentlemen who found the "Celestial Bed" (fee: ?100 per night) somewhat fatiguing could retreat to another bed to be refreshed with charges of "Magneto-Electric" virility (fee: ?50 per night). Dr. Graham soon abdicated from his "Electrical Throne," but Emma Lyons married Sir William Hamilton and, in due course, became the historic sharer of the celestial bed of Admiral Lord Nelson...
...most able man who has come to that office [Secretary of Defense]." But McElroy needs more and better "professional military advice" than he has been able to get under the Pentagon system from the Joint Chiefs of Staff -or from assistant secretaries whose regimes, said Gavin, have lasted "somewhat on the order of a year and a half...
...special school in Long Valley called Gurukula (home of the philosopher)-a school, he told reporters, that is very much like Plato's Academy. The Plato of the place: Harry Jakobsen, a $100-a-week tool designer-turned-guru. At week's end a somewhat mystified Superior Judge Frederick Hall gave Columbia until Jan. 3 to file an answer to Jacobsen's counterclaim...
...Blueberries for Sal, Time of Wonder) catches the stillness of a Maine morning before a storm, with both his brush and typewriter. Ludwig Bemelmans has won as many adults as children with his Madeline stories and his Paris scenes, which look as if they had been drawn by a somewhat sozzled Raoul Dufy. Children's books may not read any better than (or as well as) they did in the past, but they look better; the skilled artwork is generally better tied into the text and better printed than it was in the days of great illustrators such...
...somewhat inconceivable to think that this was the same Crimson team that had dominated and won Tuesday's game against the Black Knights. The varsity's attacks were sporadic and often sloppy, its defense allowed the slower St. Lawrence forwards constantly to gain an advantage, and goalie Tab Cleary looked very bad on three of the Larrie's goals...