Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spring of the year at Harvard it has almost become a tradition for the supporters of minor sports to object that spring football takes too many men from the regular athletics of that season. They protest that if this practice of playing football for the three most crucial weeks in the final college semester were abolished, it would be possible for Harvard to assume a role of greater importance in such sports as lacrosse. Ignoring the fact that crew is the most popular spring athletic, activity, the supporters of this belief hold that the men who would be released...
Under the provisions of the Milton Fund, 41 members of the teaching staff of Harvard University have been granted awards, totalling more than $58,000, to enable them to carry on research during the coming year, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. In addition, almost $5,000 has been awarded for research during...
...almost three centuries generation after generation has been born, has lived, and died on this land which is now so rapidly disappearing. A search of the records shows here and there an unusual incident which has occurred over that long period, but it is easy to conjecture how many unrecorded events took place on this restricted but fascinating area. In 1653 John Betts who lived on the Holyoke-Winthrop corner was tried for murdering his servant with a plough-staff. We can imagine the master's feelings when, although not found legally guilty, he was made to stand...
...between cities are long and where there is water on practically every side, the airplane is already invaluable. There, airlines are one of the most important means of transportation, and the number of accidents on these lines today is smaller than ever before. Those that do occur are due, almost all of them, to the fact that the planes are run on a schedule which requires that they set out at stated intervals, fair weather or foul. The number of such accidents is decreasing year by year, as further advances are made in the invention of such instruments...
...said the General, almost as affected as the white-faced cadet before him, "you must be a good soldier, a husband to your mother, and a father to your sister...