Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...shape of life from the primieval slime out of which Congress created it, we are able to see a little more clearly what manner of men will form our new armies. It has been estimated that ten million men will be of the age subject for conscription. That is almost as large a total as Russia might offer. It is larger by two-thirds than the whole forces the German Empire has put in the field. Yet her men have been able to hold half the world at bay. The power in numbers of our nation is unconquerable. What...
...report of the Princeton University Athletic Association for the season of 1915-16 shows a gain of almost $3,000 over the profit of the previous year. The sum total gained by athletics at that university amounted...
From 1797 on, De Wilde devoted himself almost wholly to portraits of actors in character, and, as the National Dictionary of Biography says: "Throughout a long life-time there was hardly an actor or actress whom he did not draw in their principal characters, thereby forming a storehouse of theatrical biography. Charles Mathews, Jr., described De Wilde towards the close of his life as constantly to be found at the corner of Drury Lane Theatre, a portfolio under his arm, and as having a happy knack of invariably hitting on a likeness...
Professor Baker, assisted by P. F. Reniers '16, has had the management of the production. The cast will be composed almost entirely of members of the regular Workshop company. It will be as follows: Helen Harriden, Miss Mary Ellis Aranka, Mrs. R. N. Burnham Count Ladislaw Henszy, Irving Pichel '14 Count Caroszy, G. E. Massey '15 Countess Henszy, Miss Ruth Delano Madame Henszy, Miss Willowdean Chattison General Henszy, F. Hubbard Nina, Miss Charlotte Read Mr. Kendy, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Bardi, A. P. Archer '17 Janco, D. Holbrook...
...indicated, vaguely enough to be sure, a desire to think things through, to reject ready-made opinions for the mere reason that they were ready-made, to hold a little aloof from current lanes of thought. Such a spirit, only too rare in our land of gigantic uniformities, and almost non-existent in our colleges, gave one hope that here at least a leaven was working which would ultimately transform American thought from the flabby courageless thing it is into something new and liberating...