Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...subject for themes and over three hundred were read, of which only two per cent opposed the present system. Several suggestions were made, such as the proctors should not wear squeaking boots, talk together in corners, or walk about any more than necessary, but they almost all believed in having them present in the room...
...Marguerite-Gounod's music being too great a tax on any one voice for eight performances. Mr. Wm. Wolff has the part of Mephistopheles, which is entirely suited to his magnificent voice. Mephisto is a new role for Mr. Wolff. The public has seen him in roles of almost every description since the opening of the opera season...
After this murderous conflict in which, out of a total of 125,000 men, 37,000 were lost, Rosecrans found himself cooped up in Chattanooga, almost without supplies. The Confederates, on the heights above, stretching from one point on the river around the town to the river again, awaited with confidence the time when starvation would compel the Union army to surrender...
...performances of "Le Malade Imaginaire" in New York; it is unfortunately too late to carry out this plan during the coming Christmas vacation, but Easter week would, I think, be a very fitting time for it. This project could be carried out with very little trouble, as, by chance, almost every one of the principals hails from New York, and would be only too willing to display his dramatic talent to his friends; the ballet and final ceremony ought to be filled out with New York fellows, who know how to dance and who will do their share in disposing...
...class of gentle-folk. Carlyle, although he was a graduate of Edinburgh University, and became the chief English man of letters, was a Scottish peasant by birth, and remained in some ways a peasant to the last. Emerson's life, by temperament and by circumstances, was one of almost unbroken peace and calm. Carlyle's experience was full of storm and trouble...