Word: almost
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...good placing both at the net and from the back of the courts, he won the third and fourth sets and made the score two all. The play during the last set was extremely close, neither man being more than one game ahead at any time. The play was almost even, except that Chase's lobbing was the better. Chase finally...
...lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have continued with little change almost down to our own day. These schools drew their students from all parts of the state, and absorbed still more of the educational interest...
...from right field and was not so easy a mark, except in the sixth inning. McCarthy had three singles, Whittemore a triple and a single, and Paine, O'Malley and Griffin each two hits. As a rule, they came at the same time with some Yale errors, and almost invariably yielded some runs...
...were begun, the press found nothing of much comment in the forensic efforts of undergraduates, though those in their initial stages were even more significant than they are in the present development of the art of debate. Given, however, the exaggerated interest of intercollegiate competition, and each debate receives almost the attention of a football game...
...cessation from all practice on the river on the part of all the crews except the sophomores. The 'varsity crew will probably not row for the next few days or until all the men have completely recovered from the epidemic of tonsilitis and sore throat which has evidently overtaken almost all the men rowing on the river...