Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...investment in the effective use of an oil-cart on the street near the field. Or, if it is not within the province of the Association to provide some remedy from its own funds, it certainly is its duty to see that this conspicuous emblem of poor management is somehow destroyed once...
Carrying away with them some of the twinkle of Miss Janis's eyes, the audience left the theatre in a contented frame of mind, and somehow felt that they had received good value for their money...
...needs five pairs of shoes and three sweaters in seven weeks, far be it from any of us to say him nay--and even if he only thinks he needs them, it may be conducive to the happiness of us all to keep him happy--but I wish that somehow he could feel instinctively about each purchase, that if he could get on perfectly well without this or that, it would mean just so much more good turf for next spring's Leiter Cup baseball. Such a spirit of loyalty and idealism on the part of each man would make...
...significant feature of the January "Illustrated" is the evident desire of the editors to make this magazine a forum for the discussion of real issues. Almost every vital human problem arises in connection with some undergraduate activity. There is an unfortunate convention to the effect that college life is somehow not "real life"; whereas life with one's fellows in any community gives rise to the same political and ethical principles. In so far as the "Illustrated" stimulates men to think and write about the big problems as these appear in the present interests and activities, it cannot fall...
...inclined to care most for the tale of the Idiot Boy, "Jonathan," who inadvertently slew his pet cricket. The tragedy was due to an indigestion brought on by eating dough. The end is charming: "Jonathan is 'a great hand,' his father tells me, at running a village store. But somehow I wish I could forget the dead and buried look that lurks in Jonathan's eyes." But, oh, the difference...