Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...form of all the crews was very ragged throughout the race. None of them knew how to start well, and, even making allowance for the roughness of the water, splashed to a needless extent. Considering, however, that they were made up of almost untrained men, the showing made was very creditable...
With the exception of Beale, the batting of the Harvard team was uniformly weak. The men were almost all retired on easy infield hits or pop flies, and were utterly unable to hit at critical points. But one man reached third base...
...College nine received its first defeat yesterday from the Fairmounts of Marlboro. They played in good form up to the end of the third inning and then, when the Fairmounts had a lead of two runs, the College team went to pieces and allowed their opponents to score almost at will. In the sixth inning Foster made a difficult stop of a grounder. He was forced to slide to the base to put the man out, which won him much applause. Gregory was not up to his usual form and was not well backed up by the rest...
Houghton, Mifflin and Company have just brought out a new book by Margaret Deland, entitled "The Wisdom of Fools." It is a series of short sketches of the lan Maclaren type, dealing with life in a manufacturing town in the West. The one thing which makes itself almost painfully apparent throughout is the cynicism of the author. In a sarcastic manner she sneers at the existing social system, and in a covert way advances the ideas of socialism. Like much else that has been written, it treats the world as being all wrong, all employers being grinding oppressors...
...College nine, Cozzens pitched five innings and had the 'Varsity batters at his mercy. Gregory then went into the box and though a few hits were made off him, he did almost as well as his predecessor...