Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are approximately thirty-six recitation rooms in Sever, holding on an average thirty-five men at least. So in the morning there are very nearly a thousand men in Sever each hour. Almost all the other college buildings of any height have outside fire-escapes or fire proof stairs: Emerson, Boylston, the Geological Museum...
...easy to commend his quest of esoteric effects. The odd meter of "A Lover of Boston" exhibits as tenuous a sense of beauty as his lover's defence of Corey Hill sunsets as a mate for Italian evenings. By contrast in "Bhakata-Yoga" the questionably sensuous imagery veils and almost nullifies the philosophi conception...
...matter of the army Mr. Ratcliffe said that conscription is dangerous in that it would almost certainly lead to disunion and the overthrow of the democracy which has been the back bone of England for so many years. Already an entirely new army of over one and one-half millions has been organized from volunteers in addition to the scant million previously under arms, and the war office in England has repeatedly expressed its satisfaction with the speed of recruiting...
...decrease from the sales of last year during the six months from July 1 to December 31 of over $10,000. This decrease has been due largely to a decline in the sales of the book and furniture departments. Small sales in the book department are attributed to the almost entire falling away of orders for foreign books, it having been an impossibility to secure a foreign importation during September and October. The decrease in the furniture department is due to the fact that this year's Freshman class is housed in furnished dormitories...
...will be erected on the east side of Plympton street a short distance from Massachusetts avenue occupying the ground now covered by Nos. 14 and 16. The lots owned by the CRIMSON have a frontage of 66 feet and a depth of 130 feet. The building will cover almost the entire space...