Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...real orchestra. For to technical ability, precision and security, it added in novel measure the higher, the finer, the imaginative, intuitive and expressive virtues of orchestral playing when it is not a routine or a pastime, but an ambition and an art. More than one in its audience heard almost amazed...
...heated that many gentlemen of college extraction took exception to it, and recently the "Sun" interviewed him. Mr. Johnson reiterated wildly and at some length that he was right; that the general ignorance and utter lack of acquaintance with culture of the average American undergraduate was almost tragic. He waved his arms, and said he believed, apropos of the time-honored legend of Semitic 12 at Harvard, that a chance half-dozen college men could not answer offhand the question, "Who was Jehovah?" We asked a chance half-dozen, and only four of them answered, "I don't know...
...University soccer team was called out on March 4 and began its schedule of practice games almost immediately. In these preliminary contests the team met some of the strongest soccer clubs in New England, chiefly factory organizations, and lost to all of them...
...race was rowed over the full 1 7-8 miles course from the Cottage Farm Bridge to the Union Boat Club Saturday afternoon. Excellent weather favored a fast race and the crews were close together for the first mile. The University crew held the lead throughout, however, and finished almost three lengths ahead of the second boat, which had gradually increased its lead over the Freshman boat to fully three lengths at the finish. In this race the University crews showed considerable improvement over previous work...
...time trials will be held and the new style shell will be compared with the old, in order to find out which is the faster. The new boat is about six feet shorter than the standard shells which have been used for the past 25 years, and draws almost an inch more water. The stern resembles the sterns of the swift motor-boats...