Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...different parts of the country. To accomplish this successfully the circular sent out by the committee says: "It is desired to interest a larger number of persons, so as to investigate the natural and unstudied speech of the people in many different localities. School teachers and clergymen in somewhat isolated communities. or students during their vacation, are in an especially favorable position to render valuable assistance to the work. The society will develop a field which has hitherto been un-worked and interesting and instructive results may be expected...
...mentions "a manly frankness," and, resulting from this, "the less welcome but more obvious traits" of self consciousness and self distrust. Summing up the characteristics of the undergraduate. Mr. Wendall says: "Sincere at heart then we find him; frank, and plagued with a self-consciousness that leads to a somewhat serious lack of assertion, which leads in turn to an evanscent lack of earnestness, and to a rather comical sense of his own immaturity." The author goes on to mention the various manifestations of self a nscicusness, and states that many men exaggerate their vices to pretending to be better...
...manifest that the "Yale giants" were not as well trained as the Harvard men, it was palpable to the merest tyro that the immense distance between the two crews was due to causes other than the physical condition of the rowers. Although, be it remembered, Yale had improved somewhat upon the English stroke, yet the laborious wastefulness of her style was in sharp contrast to the ease and dash of the Harvard stroke...
...Boston and Albany Railroad has offered the Boston Athletic Association the use of the grounds adjacent to its club-house. After being graded somewhat these grounds will make an excellent baseball field...
...other old men are either candidates for the university crew or have not yet presented themselves. The crew has all the faults that are peculiar to new men. They lack control over their bodies, and never having rowed in the water, are very irregular. The crew has been rowing somewhat as follows, although the make up is not at all decided as yet: Stroke, Vaughan, 160 lbs.; 7, Parker, 158; 6, Hubbard, 155; 5, Pulsifer, 168; 4, Hill, 160; 3, Gorham, 158; 2, Bigelow, 155; 1, Chamberlain...