Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Saturday when the latter, now numbering five, were uniformly successful in what may be regarded as their first vital games. In most cases a marked development over the playing of the previous Saturday was shown: Brown and Yale both gave evidence of a distinct advance, and Princeton displayed an almost end-season perfection in the execution of consistent straight football, both offensive and defensive...
...Almost as soon as the American Ambulance Hospital was organized, it was realized that a transportation service would be necessary. Its beginnings were small: in the battle of the Marne there were only a half-dozen hastily built cars in the service. At present, in addition to the Paris squad of ambulances, which serves to carry wounded from the freight station of La Chapelle to all the hospitals in the Paris district, there are four other units at work. One squad is attached to Hospital "B," at Juilly, about 40 kilometers east of Paris. The other three units are stationed...
...However, from another point of view, the University's showing was disappointing. The Indians seemed to find holes in the line at will, and it is difficult to see why they scored not more than one touchdown. Until Taylor and Parson were sent in, centre and left tackle proved almost invariably to be open doors to a five or six-yard gain. Wiggin and R. C. Curtis fought hard, but they were too light for their jobs, as each was repeatedly rushed out of position by the Carlisle forwards. Caner's superior weight helped him considerably in his position...
...present Carlisle record shows one victory, one tie, and one defeat, and as little is yet known of their opponents strength, no definite basis for an estimate of their own power can accurately be made. However, under a new and untried coaching system, and with an almost entirely "green" team, it can confidently be prophesied that today's game will not be a repetition of the 1911 result...
...Spanish-American War twenty-five per cent of the American soldiers contracted typhoid fever. In the present European War the disease has been almost entirely stamped out due to the practice of inoculation...