Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...almost an "original subscriber" and have followed your fortunes with the greatest interest. If I had to choose between TIME and the several other magazines that I take, I would retain TIME for it has made itself absolutely indispensable to me. And this in spite of the fact that it irritates me intensely at times. Mr. Hadden, aided of course by his able coadjutors, has built up a great publication. He will be missed, but TIME is now on such a firm foundation that it will go on just the same...
...death of the Editor, Briton Hadden, seemed almost a personal loss. I certainly want you to put my name down for one of the books which you intend to publish about...
...Jahncke's position in the Navy Department had developed into an almost hereditary public office for the Roosevelt family. Theodore Roosevelt Sr. occupied it for a year (1897-98). Then came his cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, now New York's Governor, to hold it for seven years (1913-20). After a brief interregnum under Gordon Woodbury, Theodore Roosevelt Jr. stepped in, in 1921, turning the position over in 1924 to his cousin, Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of the elder Roosevelt...
...report exonerated Commissioner Burke, whose resignation last week was accepted by President Hoover. Mr. Burke said he was "very happy" to get out. A Federal grand jury in Oklahoma almost indicted him last summer on this very case. Said the President: "I have the highest esteem for Judge Burke . . . and I propose a little later to offer him another important position in public service...
...enterprise. Members of the Faculty are, naturally enough, concerned about the details, and it is quite possible that not all agree on every item in the important undertaking which, because it is novel, is working out slowly, but the scheme as a whole is thoroughly acceptable. The graduates are almost unanimously favorable to it: at their meetings held since the announcement of Mr. Harkness's generous gift and in other places they have enthusiastically endorsed the plan, either formally or informally...