Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...told me a little witticism which ran as follows: 'If the world conflict was a war to end war, then this is a peace to end peace.' And such it would almost seem unless the United States joins the League of Nations. Take a survey of the conditions all over the world, especially in Europe. Germany's militarist party is stronger now than even in its palmiest days before the war. The people have determined to resurrect their country with such an energy that it drives them to labor ten to fourteen hours a day. Moreover, the Germany policy...
...open style of play to supplant the dangerous smashing game, is mainly responsible for the decreasing number of fatalities in the opinion of football experts. The dangers of a dozen years ago, when the old style smashing game included hurdling, flying tackles, and vicious offensive tactics, have been almost entirely eliminated in the new style of football...
...greater portion of that group of Americans who follow foreign affairs supported President Wilson. Lack of access to the sea is one of the greatest incentives for a nation to wage war; it dominated Russian policy for a century and a half. Flume is the chief and almost the only port in the long expanse of shallow beaches between Trieste and Montenegro. The question is not one of Flume, but of the hinterland of Flume. Is the port more important to the hinterland or to Italy, whose object, says Premier Nitti, "has after all merely sentimental value"? Will...
While American troops are in Siberia it is difficult for the Japanese to take any action toward the absorption of this territory. If however, American troops are withdrawn, Japan is given a free hand, and can excuse almost any act on the ground of the necessity of securing Siberia against the Bolsheviki. The chances are excellent that we should shortly find that Japan had assumed the same relation toward Siberia that England held toward Egypt fifteen years ago--or that Japan herself once held toward Korea...
...industrial firms it will be invaluable as a source of quick information which may save them many months of arduous research by especially hired experts. With the aid of its well equipped laboratories, Technology will be able to furnish almost immediate information at a minimum cost. An analogy might be drawn between the consulting function of the Department of Agriculture and this new department. If brings the theoretical in close contract with the practical side of industry...