Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Leffingwell's "Iron Band" is a tune of the good old triangle; it is passionate, almost hysterical. But for a story of the kind, it is well done...
...University second baseball team was completely snowed under by the Pilgrims yesterday afternoon in a game which the latter won 25 to 4. Both Fitzgibbons and Harris of the seconds were batted all over the lot and the Pilgrims were able to score almost at will...
...current number of the Musical Review is at times lacking in maturity of style, this is nevertheless a characteristic which may be often observed in almost any undergraduate periodical in the country. The Review has, as a rule, kept free from it. But occasionally, as in two articles of the present number, even the Review, which is read by professional musicians over the country, shows a slight falling off in this respect. Nevertheless, the two longest articles are of great interest...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, speaking in the Union last night, gave a brilliant description of present social and political conditions in the Balkan peninsula. Coming almost directly from Servia, where he has travelled and studied conditions during the past few months, Mr. Trevelyan told of the terrible epidemic of typhus fever which is now raging there, and of the courageous work which is being done to combat it by British and American doctors and nurses...
...distortion of boundaries is due to historical causes. Since Austria drove the Turks from Hungary, she has continually attempted to check the southern Slav, grasping territory whenever possible. During the nineteenth century, Servia, Greece, Roumania, and Bulgaria freed themselves from the Turk, and by a concerted effort in 1912, almost drove him from Europe...