Word: somewhat
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Operating the shuttle buses 24 hours a day, as the Undergraduate Council has proposed, would help matters somewhat, but not enough. At its best, an all-night shuttle service to insure student safety would be both inadequate and inefficient...
...among them the hijacking of a Mediterranean cruise liner by Arab terrorists, Jonah's sojourn in the belly of the whale, the historic wreck of a French ship and the religious experiences of an American astronaut. The localized pleasures in each chapter -- Barnes is both erudite and witty -- are somewhat diminished by the suspicion that the end design will amount to no more than academic playfulness. There is much to savor in this book and a little to deplore, including the author's determination to indulge himself instead of his readers...
...amusement I discovered last year that I qualified as Hispanic. I say `to my amusement' because I had never thought of myself as qualifying as Hispanic," says Mas-Colell. "I still think that the definition of Hispanics is somewhat curious...
...Three large, hairy and somewhat inebriated guys wearing "Harvard: The Northeastern of Cambridge" shirts ask me if they can "borrow" my identification. I give them my outdated Boston Public Library card and tell them that the secret code word is "Zeek...
Four supercomputers remain in service in the United States, spread around the Midwest and on the West Coast, said Professor of Physics David Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, who is one of Harvard's two board members at the von Neumann site, called the NSF decision "not crippling but somewhat inconvenient...