Word: unevenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William and Mary team, however, despite its lightness of material, has a speedy backfield as its main piece de resistance, but aside from this there is little more than a scrappy spirit very commendable in a team that is undoubtedly facing an uneven struggle.A. W. HUGULEY...
...Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take a three-week vacation in February at his 2,600-acre ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His performances are bound to be uneven. He will bang on the piano unmercifully at times, hit wrong notes, distort the text. But Paderewski has never been a faultless technician. His instrument sometimes magnifies his colossal ideas but occasionally it fails...
...individual incomes among husbandmen whose crops had been burned out, possibly produce severe hardship in large areas, but will proportionately benefit others who will get higher prices for their produce as a result of shortages. From the perspective of New York and Chicago, the 1930 farm income, while geographically uneven, appeared likely to average about the same as in previous years. At Des Moines fortnight ago Chairman Alexander Legge of the Federal Farm Board declared...
Poet Shostac has less to say about Manhattan's 14th St. than about himself. He writes this segment of autobiography in unrhymed, uneven lines that read well and easily. Not particularly quotable, never reaching a high poetic plane, never distinguishing between the vocabulary of poetry & prose, his novel in verse has considerable cumulative effect...
...people nowadays read the late great Author Stephen Crane, though 30 years ago he was a pride of the U. S. His Red Badge of Courage is still considered one of the best war books ever written. A first-class though uneven prose writer, as a versifier he was uniformly second-rate. This book reprints all his poems, including four discovered among his papers in Jacksonville in 1928 and printed in The Bookman last April...