Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tours the store with a large basket, makes her own selections from neatly-stocked shelves. In spite of its apparent latitude to shoplifters, the Piggly Wiggly idea has proved extremely successful, partly because of its novelty, partly because neat packages and large advertising appropriations have made retail grocery selling almost an automatic procedure...
...autogiro's most valuable feature is that it can descend almost vertically, and on almost any sort of field...
Nonpartisanship was almost a mania with General Manager Stone. If he had political opinions, no one else in the Associated Press knew them. When his son Herbert went down with the German-torpedoed Lusitania, he insisted on A. P. neutrality...
Strange indeed have been the noises issuing from the Copland-Sessions Concerts in Manhattan since last spring, when Composers Aaron Copland and Roger Sessions inaugurated them as a clearinghouse for untried music of their contemporaries. Formidably foolish, almost awesome, appeared the prospect of a Copland-Sessions concert next week, with music by Virgil Thomson, text by Gertrude Stein...
...Manhattan is a primly-styled, stone building which houses the Anderson Galleries, famed red plush repository of art and art auctions. On the third floor is tiny Room 303, known as the Intimate Gallery, littered with picture frames, books, mucilage pots, framed and unframed paintings. In the room, at almost any time during the winter season, may be found a keen-eyed little man in a baggy grey suit. He peers inquisitively through silver spectacles, his grey mustache and hair are scraggly, uncombed. His name is Alfred Stieglitz. He is a lover and maker of photographs...