Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...within its borders immediately available for military work. At the ourbreak of the European war England, France, Russia and Germany each had some 500 aviators. Present estimates would indicate that there are now some 40,000 fighting abroad, and that this number is being increased daily. Aeroplanes have become almost as important to the modern army and navy as guns...
...first half was marked by the failure of the Crimson to take advantage of its opportunities. Although the puck was almost continually around the Tiger goal for the first ten minutes the wings missed pass after pass when they were free and could have had easy shots. The left side of the line was slow and failed to show much headwork; Rice improved considerably in the second half, but Baker was taken out before he could redeem himself. Another fault was the failure of the line to cover their men, and allowing themselves to be covered by the Princeton players...
...only college in the United States which still holds to the thole pins Neither Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, nor the University has ever adopted the foreign rigging, but it was tried at Pennsylvania under the regime of Coach Vivian Nickalls. English crews in English rigged shells have been almost uniformly successful in the Henley races...
...point, carried the puck through alone and tallied. Percy missed a perfect chance to score on a pass from Rice, and then some nice passing between Osgood, Hutchinson and Sands put the B. A. A. ahead when Sands scored. Jones, whose accurate shooting from any position was almost phenomenal, tallied next from a sharp angle. A few minutes later Sands took the rubber from behind his own goal, carried it the length of the rink and passed to Hutchinson, who drove in another fast angle shot...
...writing of acceptable plays, however, undergraduate ability is usually lacking and in this department, alone the club has been almost entirely dependent on the work of graduate dramatists. Granting that it is difficult for undergraduates to write good long plays, there is no reason why the short plays which the Dramatic Club stages in the spring should not be the products of their pens. There are plenty of men in the University with both time and ability to conceive plots and weave them into plays for the enjoyment of others...