Word: almost
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...University chess team will play Yale at New Haven this evening. The University team is composed almost entirely...
...perhaps, only one out of 50 chances of greatness at home in some branch of industry which is already highly developed. China wakens and calls for an army of engineers. India, bewailing her illiteracy, calls for teachers. Aeronautics, wireless telegraphy, branches of social service and dozens of other almost unexplored professions are constantly opening for those who feel within them the genius which might spell success, and the enthusiasm which fears no likelihood of hardship...
...almost forgotten the strangest thing I heard at the exhibition. A lady complained that all the types were alike: There was no variety, all the colors were dull, all the landscape equally mournful. Now this is actually to condemn not merely individual consistency of mood but the consistency in spirit of an entire nation throughout the ages. Did she expect Spain to cast off her mourning and giggle? Did she seek for a soda fountain in Segovia? Did she want the devil on the church steeple? If she did I call her a fool, if she did not I place...
...songs of Marguerite Farrell, the rest of the work is very mediocre, especially so in contrast with the clever performance of inimitable Lew Fields. Alice Fischer as Mrs. Schniff just misses success, for occasionally she shows a truly comic gleam, but she often descends into rough-house which almost becomes vulgarity...
...Daly takes his part wonderfully well. The Master, a man of clay, caustic humor, who dominates others with his materialistic but liberal ideas, is before us in the life. When he is involved in the wheels of his own scheme of existence, it is with a feeling almost of loss that we find the Master dominated, after all, by his emotions...