Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...First Hundred Thousand--still first", as he touchingly puts it at the close of his book, but, alas, no longer The Hundred Thousand. At the beginning of the war he enlisted in a well-known Highland regiment, in spite of the fact that his thirty-eight years put him almost over the age limit for military service. Then came six months of arduous training at Aldershot with the other members of the motley collection known as Kitchener's mob, or "K(1)". In April, 1914, he was sent to France, where his distinguished conduct soon raised him to the rank...
...quite surprised that Mr. F. E. P. '18 did not eulogize the scene where this "most charming in years in Boston ingenue" held the stage alone for almost five minutes while she minced about to the melody of a popular tune on a fifteen-dollar Victoria. Perhaps this was like the porter's scene in Macbeth, to give the audience relief from tension. They were wrought up to the utmost of tensity, wondering what Bunker was packing in his suitcase, and needed relief...
...were 15 deaths last year, 13 in 1914; 14 in 1913, and 13 in 1912. The number of fatalities this season, though higher than the average of the past few years, in no way reflects against intercollegiate football, since only one of the victims was a college player. In almost every case death resulted because of physical unfitness and not a single life was lost where a physician's examination was demanded before the contestant was permitted to enter the game. Two of the deaths were caused by broken necks, but in the majority of cases victims died form internal...
...Then capital punishment was largely done away with, and the problem of prison reform entered in. Conditions changed so that a few years ago the prisons almost all had the honor system. The men worked together in silence and separated at night. Some few 'trusties' were allowed to go outside the walls to do menial labor. But it was not a success; it was in fact a distinct failure. Two-thirds of the graduates from the prisons came back for another term, and most of the rest did not return only because they were too clever to be caught...
Winter weather diminishes greatly the time spent in the open air by those who ride in automobiles. It comes near putting bicycles out of use. From steamboats to canoes, there is almost entire cessation of water outings...