Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...been looking forward to war. Her people are traders and merchants, not soldiers. There is no system in the army, and the officers are thoroughly corrupt. The greater part of the funds appropriated for modern fortifications and ordnance has gone into the pockets of the mandarins. The outcome was almost self-evident to those who understood affairs in the East. It is not the Chinese soldier who is at fault, but the whole theory of the government. The Chinese have many of the traits to make good soldiers; they are more like us than we imagine...
...suburbs in a state of dangerous curiosity. It is a well-known physiological fact that many a man, and more women, have been made the victims of hypochondria, of forgetfulness regarding their debts, of illusions of the most aggravating and exciting sort, by curiosity. Now, it may be almost reprehensible in Mr. William Collier, and those who aid and abet him in this query, "Who is Jones?" Intellects have been shattered by questions of this sort and endeavors at their solution. The sphinx herself is much shattered after some 4,000 or more years of looking as if she wanted...
...grown to in our day, anything approaching Offenbach operabouffe has a strong smack of the "legitimate." We rather wonder that this sort of thing has not occurred to the Pudding before; for what could be more appropriate? An old and much-honored club of university undergraduates would seem almost predestined to this sort of wild caricature of the classic in its theatrical doings; the whole genre has an academic flavor which should have recommended it to the Pudding long ago. Here is real burlesque, worthy of the name, a caricature of something; not the inane and insane business that...
...number of baseball season tickets which have thus far been sold is unpleasantly low, - so low as almost to force the inference that the extent of the sale depends to a large degree on the success of the nine. If true, this shows a deplorable state of affairs. Harvard men should be the last to forget that the obligation to support a team is only increased by a temporary lack of success. That the nine has unfortunately met with several defeats at the beginning of the season, and has not played fully up to the hopes of the College...
Yesterday afternoon the crew used the new shell, but did not take a time row. The boat is almost as steady as a barge, but this is partially due to the fact that it weighs considerably more than an ordinary shell. A time row will be taken soon, when the exact worth of the boat may be determined...