Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Massachusetts Legislature, assembled in Symphony Hall last night to listen to the Harvard and Boston College debaters argue the merits of capital punishment, and to applaud vigorously when the unanimous decision of the three judges awarded the victory to the Bostonians. At times the contest degenerated into almost parliamentary caviling, but on many occasions it rose to brilliant heights of clear presentation and quick rebuttal which kept the audience breathless...
...Council meeting in the City Hall last night, property holders near Colonial Way voiced considerable objection to the University's petition to close the street that divides almost in half a plot of land bordering on Memorial Drive on which one of the new House units is to be erected...
...style, Mr. Wilder said. "Style is a by-product of personality, and in my opinion nothing can harm the notation of one's personality, which is style, so much as the technical study of organization, paragraphing, periodic sentences, and specific details. The technical side of style should be learned almost unconsciously on the tide of one's tremendous nourishing enthusiasm for certain authors of one's own choice
...ordinary mind it seems that Philanthropy delights in scattering its pearls with much the same blindfold abandon that marks the scale-handling of the sister virtue Justice. One, and almost the only, great exception continues to be the Rockefeller Foundation, which, through its many ramifications, encourages the most varied forms of culture without rousing any lay opposition to its work as unnecessary or futile. The endowment granted to the Fogg Art Museum a few weeks ago may well become a classic example of sensible generosity; and the awards of the General Education Board for literary research of importance, while...
Thirty-eight students in the Harvard Engineering School have been given the privileges of the Dean's List, it was revealed in a special report released this morning. As there are 197 undergraduates eligible for the honor, the percentage attaining it, 19.3 surpasses by almost three points the record of the college, where 16.8 percent of the enrolment gained places...