Word: almost
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur to stand with such grace with a foot on either side of the continent. The Stan- ford Employment Office and Dining Hall System are chiefed and staffed by women, the Registrar's Office and Library have two men each directing a staff composed almost entirely of women, and in every nook and cranny of Stanford, women secretaries write, type, talk, phone...
...Duke's impeded speech was brought painfully to public attention at the Wembley Exposition of 1925. Standing before a battery of amplifiers, H. R. H., as President of the Exposition, commenced a brief address, consisting almost entirely of syllables. The current had not been turned on, the Duke's voice could not be heard more than a few feet away. He turned to the exposition chairman seated beside him, just as electricians turned on the loud speakers full force. Instantly a Gargantuan voice boomed through the Stadium: "THE D-D-D-DAMN THINGS...
...want no women and I want no tears," were almost his last words.* "Let me die before...
...required to take a large majority of their meals in the Houses or lose money. This unavoidable element of compulsion is in itself contrary to an ancient Harvard policy and is bound to arouse opposition from all those who prize this tradition of individualism and non-interference as something almost unique in American education...
Author Hamsun and Publisher Knopf have produced some 15 Hamsun novels in the U. S. Chapter The Last is laid in the Torahus Sanatorium. There is The Suicide, so-called because that is what he threatens ever to do. He almost becomes normal when his wife comes back to him, but when the Sanatorium burns down she dies and he, ironically, escapes. Then there is a man going blind with what The Suicide calls "the barber's itch." Says he to The Suicide: "My eruption is only on the skin but you're sick inside." Other characters...