Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sister Evangeline Booth also was there. She had often toyed with the idea of being herself elected General. But when the Council elected Commissioner Higgins she was not disappointed. Indeed, she said, "I am almost intoxicated with...
About 20 out of every 1,000 of the U. S. population, or almost two and one-half million, are sick daily. All, of course, do not call doctors. General practitioners charge from $3 to $5 for office visits, $5 to $10 for house calls...
Introspection is the mother of image-sorting. So long as one is in a state of interior solitude, one can introspect almost anywhere-walking along a crowded street, in a sunny meadow, in a room where typewriters are banging, in a room alone with a fire, in bed in the morning or just before falling asleep at night...
Should U. S. housewives who fret over electric bills move to London they would find their worries considerably increased. For in Great Britain light costs an average of 13? per kilowatt hour, almost twice the U. S. average of 6.8?. Electric power, too, is much more expensive in London, costing 4? per hour in England; 2.16? here...
Entertainment. Cheers for the cinema, tears for the legitimate theatres were indicated in reports from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., Paramount-Famous Players-Lasky Corp., and Shubert theatres. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (common stock owned by Loew's Inc.) earned a net of almost $5,400,000 or $31.21 a share against a net of about $3,000,000 or $16.68 a share in 1927. Paramount reported a record net of $8,700,000, an increase of $650,000 over 1927. The Shubert report showed a $470,822 profit for six months ending Dec. 31, 1928, as compared...