Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz ten degrees backward." Hezekiah, king of Israel was very sick and being warned by Isaiah that he was going to die prayed to the Lord for his life. He recovered. He had thought all his work was done, his sun had almost set; when suddenly the shadow on the dial began to creep backward, he regained a portion of his youthful strength and he finds that many a days work is yet before him. So it is with many of us. Misfortune or advancing years makes us feel that there...
Another thing to be noticed is the fact of railroad bonds being heavily mortgaged. In the case of real estate, the real estate must almost always be worth two or three times as much as the amount of the mortgage. But with railroads it is different; for the real estate of a railroad is generally but a fraction of the mortgage value. Hence it is that the value of the mortgage depends almost entirely upon the earnings of the railroad...
...quinquennial catalogue, and to replace it by English in the Commencement exercises would be a consistent and welcome change. The college is growing more and more modern in spirit. It long ago dropped Latin as a prescribed study, and no longer requires it even for admission. It seems almost an absurdity to hold the graduating exercises in a language the students are no longer obliged to know, and which the audience certainly do not understand readily. There is no apparent reason except custom for retaining Latin in the Commencement exercises, and the change of the language of the quinquennial catalogue...
...more reverentially loyal among the countless admirers of Sir Thomas Mallory and his delightful tales of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table may almost be shocked by the ruthless way in which their heroes have been descrated in Mark Twain's last production "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." There is a tone about the book which grates harshly upon the sensibilities of the reader-a tone which calls forth the feeling that the author would have succeeded far better had he displayed half the good taste that he has the humor. This last characteristic...
...meeting of the executive committee of the National Lawn Tennis Association this week it was decided to hold the championship singles at Newport on August 20. The time and place for holding the doubles were also discussed, and it is almost certain that two tournaments will be held, one at Staten island and the other at Chicago and that the winners of each will meet to contest for the championship...