Word: almost
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge correspondent of the New York Post thinks there is little need to be alarmed at the danger from fire at Harvard since "all the occupants of the buildings are agile young men, almost any one of whom, aided by his bed-clothes, could without serious injury get to the ground from a third-story window...
President Bartlett of Dartmouth College has been confined to his house for a week with a severe attack of influenza, attended with almost entire loss of voice, but is now better, and expects to be out in a few days...
...success of the society in one year has come up to the expectations of the most sanguine, and its possibilities for the future seem almost unlimited...
...conduct of Harvard in the matter of the race," cries the Record, "has been so arbitrary, distrustful, almost surly, that we think that the large element of our college which fears that Harvard wishes to frighten us into conceding to them undue advantages, is almost justified in its harsh supposition...
...shown his manhood by refusing to submit, preferring to sever his connection with the college. Confident in his own mind that he has committed no wrong, he will not sacrifice his self-respect by attempting to carry out the terms of a sentence which, indeed, his circumstances render almost impossible. I think it is but an act of simple justice to put on record the opinion of every man with whom I have spoken on the subject - that Mr. S. has suffered without just cause, and that the faculty have made a mistake...