Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rates, in which the weaker roads are forced to submit. The victorious road, now commanding the entire traffic, immediately raises its rates and thus taxes the public for the expenses of the war. These sudden rises and falls are very confusing to shippers, who would almost all prefer high but steady rates...
...complaints brought before them for settlement; the complainant has carried the case into the courts, has produced new evidence, and at a great expense of time and money has had the case tried with the possibility of failure in the end. Recent decisions of the courts have made it almost impossible to inforce the act, and unless its defects are remedied, it is doomed. The people have looked to this act as their great hope and will not witness its destruction without a protest. A refusal now to correct or at least to endeavor to remedy the existing wrongs...
...knows all about it" was on hand and said that the home of the bird is in the far north - in the most northern bed of coniferous forests and forests and that they are so seldom harrassed there that they know absolutely nothing of danger. Almost all Arctic birds are tamer than more southern bred species, but the Pine Grosbeak is the least timid of the Arctic race...
Every winter these birds appear along the northern frontier of New England, but it is only at rare intervals that they come in numbers so far south as Boston, though a few may be found in suitable places almost every season. This year they first appeared about the first of November and +++ have represented them in large numbers over all of these northern states...
...make it a success and whether it is or not, the president and the management of the Society are certainly to be congratulated for the energy which they have shown, and for the new life which they have infused into the Society. A few years ago the Society almost died out, - an occasional religious service was held, attended usually by about ten men. Now by the efforts of the officers the society is coming nearer to the attainment of its object, that is drawing together all the Episcopalians in the college, making them known to each other, and showing, that...