Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Farquhar. He was lighter on his feet than Earle and more graceful. Earle, on the other hand, had a greater variety of movements. Mr. Bowler gave a very pretty exhibition of tumbling at the request of the committee in charge. His movements were very difficult, combining, as they did, almost every conceivable form of tumbling, but they were all executed with remarkable ease and grace...
...Stone '93, proceeded to show that this charge was almost groundless and that it was brought up to help defeat Mr. Blaine in his presidential campaign. The speaker recounted Mr. Blaine's public history and his career in inactivity and showed with what great statemanship he had settled our international difficulties and established a system of reciprocity. As a scholar, his two chief works are the book entitled "Twenty Years in Congress," the recognized authority on the history of the United States from 1863 to 1884 and his controversy with Mr. Gladstone, which was a complete victory. The presidency needs...
...called economic fallacy" and Mr. Rich's purpose, as he explains it in an introductory note, is to state as concisely as clearness permits a proposition which he believes to be fundamental in the science of political economy - a proposition which is declared false and absurd by almost every reputable political economist...
...opponent punts from behind the line a fair catch can be made and a goal dropped, so that the side making the touchdown is almost certain to score again if this rule is taken advantage of by a feint catch...
...University for the religious life of the students. It would be to the new student the symbol of the welcome which it is now so hard to express; and to all students it would be a constant reminder of the high aims of the societies which are now almost hidden from view, and even from thought, in their obscure rooms. Its purpose would be anything but a narrow one, for the three societies now represent practically all shades of religious belief, and any new religious society would find a place in the building, as soon as it might be formed...