Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...learned by bitter experience the danger of excessive confidence, and knew that the game could alone be won by steady, persistent work. This feeling, with the added inspiration of surroundings, time, and place, gave our fellows an impetus toward success that was irresistible, and that swept their opponents into almost nothingness...
...hoped that the College will continue to have a Latin Salutatory on Commencement Day as successful, as intelligible, as appropriate, as was Mr. Strobel's, rather than some learned disquisition on some abstruse, uninteresting subject. It is almost without precedent for a Latin oration to be applauded during its delivery, as was that of last Commencement...
LAST Friday's game with Princeton was almost as surprising in its results as was a certain other game which it is unnecessary to mention...
Jules Verne's extravagant stories have a sort of fish-hook interest about them. It is too often forgotten by those who criticise him severely that he writes for the young, and that almost all he publishes appears in a magazine for young folks. To my unscientific mind he succeeds perfectly in what he attempts to do. One of his latest works, L'lle Mysterieuse, is a sort of Robinson Crusoe romance. But there is, after all, little choice among his books, of which everybody should at least read one in the original. Hector Malot's Romain Kalbris...
...different crews time to draw the lots properly. Rather contrary to expectation, the entry-book was well filled on Friday evening, there being thirty-four names entered for the six-oars and thirty-two for the four-oars. There was the usual tardiness in getting started, and it was almost twelve o'clock before the first race took place...