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Word: almost (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...election the other day I voted the Ben Butler ticket, as almost everybody did, it seems. I'm glad he's elected. He's old for President, I know, but then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

This principle holds good in more than one branch of education. Modern improvement, not content with overthrowing the old prejudices of the art-world, has crept in among us in another form, and has, almost unnoticed, taken control of our classical education...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY RUSKINISM. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...worst of the matter is, that the gas is turned off at the meters, so that it cannot be lit again during the night. A man's vexation when he finds himself in a black basement with only a match or two in his pockets is almost intolerable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...different stores of Cambridge supply the student with almost every minor necessary of his life, but in one point they are deficient: we want in Harvard Square or thereabouts a first-class, clean barber-shop, with experienced workmen. That such an establishment would yield satisfactory profit to the owner there can be no doubt, while to us it would be a long-needed convenience...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

...issue is, whether they can be roused better by strict discipline and repeated exhortations than by being compelled to depend on themselves in meeting the exigencies of college life. The first system has been tried, and with tolerable success; but it is significant that, after pupils have got almost to manhood, the slacker the government has been, the more marked the success. It is also to be noticed - and Dr. McCosh is unfair in not noticing - that the two serious objections offered to the plan of voluntary recitations apply also with great force to the present system. It is indeed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VOLUNTARY RECITATIONS. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

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