Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Moore's warning, printed in Monday's CRIMSON we wish to add for the benefit of men unused to College ways that speculation in Harvard football tickets is a crime against Harvard College. Moreover, it is a crime that under the new scheme of allotment is almost certain to be discovered. This may not mean a great deal to a new student who has not learned the dread of the blacklist; and it probably means less than nothing to a man who can see a few immediate dollars farther than he can his own honor and future pleasure...
Princeton still faces the problem of building up an almost entirely new team around the three regulars who have returned. Though the line will be unusually heavy, the backfield is light and inexperienced. Consequently, it is expected that the team will be powerful on the defence, but weak in attack. Toward the end of strengthening the latter, much time is being spent on developing the forward pass and open play...
...return to my text for a moment. In days like those of Saul and Israel, it was almost impossible for a young man without influence, without position, without family, without wealth, without standing in the community, to go forth as a leader. But it is an everyday fact today that any man go forth as a leader, if he has qualities which make...
...transpired that he had left his valuable book collection to Harvard. This included four folios of Shakespere, first editions of the "Fairie Queene," of Ben Jonson's works, of "Robinson Crusoe," of Gulliver's Travels," "The Vicar of Wakefield," the "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," and many other works almost as famous. There were first editions and presentation copies of Dickens, Thackeray, Browning, Tennyson, and Stevenson, and numerous other manuscripts from the same period of English literature. In the short term of his life, Harry Elkins Widener had in this collection acquired one of the most valuable private libraries...
...University team had men on bases in almost every inning but seldom got the "breaks." In the last inning with out out, the prospects for evening up the score looked exceedingly bright after Wingate and Clark had reached second and third respectively on consecutive errors by Toomey. The last mentioned broke up the game, however, by making a beautiful catch of Ayres's hard drive over second and manipulating a double play with the assistance of Glendenning...