Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...provision in the founder's will that boys of a certain grade shall be "bound out" is apparently almost a dead letter, as according to the report only one was indentured as an apprentice, but 139 were granted permission to leave in order to accept employment...
...north toward Scotland they will play at Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Glasgow. From Glasgow they will go to Liverpool, where the clubs will disband. This will be the first trip of the kind ever undertaken by an American college and according to the present prospects its success is almost assured...
...spring of truth," and in striving after the unobtainable, he left behind him a life of singular incompleteness, but of vast promise. He was neither religionist nor classicist, and looked at things coldly and scientifically. For the blending of light and shade, harmony, and grace of contour, he was almost unsurpassed...
...religious motives appear to perfection in his paintings. His characters were sensuous but never sensual. Correggio was litte affected by the great movements of his time. He was one of the very greatest of the Renaissance painters, and it is a singular thing that he painted and died almost in obscurity...
...strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers but none of them could give what Michael Angelo did, that is the imprint of a strong individuality, and accordingly none of them amounted to much...